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The Man in the White Hat
Perfecting the DIY Pedicab
The Long Center at Six Months
Crime Guy Michael Connelly
A Long Day’s Journey Into
Making August Evening’
Inside the House of Torment
The Aftermath: ACL Live Shots

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VOL 28, NO. 5 OCTOBER 3, 2008

PUBLISHER

Nick Barbara

contents

PAGE TWO To Whine Is to
Love Again

POSTMARKS Reader loves This
Modern World but not Maakies,
Obama signs stolen, and more

news

19 TPJ Campaign Complaint Leads
Back to WilCo; Innocence
Project Seeks Justice; DIY
Pedicabs: Making It, Weirdly;
and More

POINT AUSTIN Money for
Nothing

BY MICHAEL KING

20 CITY HALL HUSTLE Ocean's Seven

BY WELLS DUNBAR

halloween

IT CAME FROM THE BACK VARD

House of Torment's yearlong
scare tactics pay off in sea-
sonal screams

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

arts

A Choreographer's New Home
in Austin; a Gallery's New Home
Downtown; Old Home Week at
New Music Ensemble; and the
Payne Award Nominations

44 LEARNING CURVE Lessons
from the Long Center's first
six months
BY ROBERT FAIRES

22 ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL So You

Think You're Registered?; No
Exceptions for Ike-Displaced
Voters; and More

24 COOL CITIES The Pecan Street
Project

THE HIGHTOWER REPORT

Chocolate That Isn't; and Bush’s
Farewell Gift to Chemical Bosses

32 THE MAN IN THE WHITE HAT Larry
Joe Doherty rides into the battle
for CD 10
BY LEE NICHOLS

AFTER A FASHION Stephen
remakes his nephew
BY STEPHEN
MACMILLAN MOSER

books

50 AN ANGEL-FREE ANGELES

Detective novelist Michael
Connelly trolls L.A.’s
seedy underbelly again in
The Brass Verdict

BY JESSE SUBLETT

ALSO REVIEWED Downtown Owi
by Chuck Klosterman

food

53 Wine Search; Emerald City
Press; Event Menu: Oct. 4-8;
and Food-o-File

54 URBAN ROOTS Good food,
good work, good citizens

BY KATE THORN BERRY

RESTAURANT ROULETTE A spin
around our Restaurant Guide

screens

61 Austin Asian American Film
Festival; Call + Response; and
Film News

TRIAL AND ERROR, REWARDED

The days- and nights- and
years-long journey to make
August Evening

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

64 DEMOCRACY’S FEET OF CLAY

AFS Documentary Tour pres-
ents Can Mr. Smith Get to
Washington Anymore?

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

65 TV EYE Masterpiece Loosens
the Corset

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

music

67 OFF THE RECORD Songs in
A&E: Recapping the 2008
ACL Music Fest and rev-
ving up for the third
annual HAAM Benefit Day
BY AUSTIN POWELL

68 ACL LIVE SHOTS There
were no survivors, but
they left some notes.

More online.

NEWS OF THE WEIRD A

granny raps, Spaniards
leap over babies, Barbies
get decapitated, and
more

calendar back

COMMUNITY

This weekend has, among its diverse
events, the Austin Record Convention,
the South First Art Walk, and that spec-
tacle of male and pelted wonders called
the Hairy Man Festival

78 DAY TRIPS The Bugle Boy in La Grange

offers an intimate setting for the audience
and artists to connect

81 SPORTS

PLAYING THROUGH At 10 years old, Robert
D’Lorm didn’t learn how to box to beat up
bullies at school; he learned to box so he
wouldn’t have to

SOCCER WATCH Longhorns draw record
crowd, St. Ed’s men finally lose, and more

82 ARTS

Theatre: Blackbird, Cloud 9

86 FILM

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist; Flash of
Genius; Blindness; Religulous; Appaloosa;
OSS 117: Cairo , Nest of Spies; Fireproof

SHOWTIMES

98 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Haunted Castle 3D,
City Lights, Rockers, Dogtown and Z-Boys,
Love in Thoughts, Slacker Uprising, Austin
Asian American Film Festival

lOO MUSIC

RECOMMENDED Blue is the color of
Graveyard’s soul, plus Monotonix, Ra Ra
Riot, El Flaco, Jaguares, Saviours, Todd
Snider, the Guess Who, etc.

105 VENUES

CLUB LISTINGS AND ROADSHOWS

125 COMIX How to be Happy,

Troubletown, Fyebeam, and more

MR. SMARTY PANTS A surfing presi-
dent, oil by accident, and more

CLASSIFIEDS

137 COMMON LAW Trying to Avoid Jury
Duty?

138 CAR TALK No Need to Get a
Minivan - Convertible Is Safe in
Lightning

EASY STREET,
PERSONALS

THE LUV DOC A rambling recom-
mendation to shore up your social
calendar

143 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Be open to
those who make you uneasy, Libra

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NEWS Michael King
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Messer

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To Whine Is to Love Again

Navigating the maze of Palin punditry

BY LOUIS BLACK

An old friend called yesterday. I was late
for something (I’m almost always late for
something), so I had to go. I promised to call
her back later that day. Of course, I forgot.
Memory, never one of my strong suits, has
evolved from spotty at best to a completely
unreliable mist. Short-term, long-term - any
and all kinds of memories are now shrunken
and free-floating, with precious few connec-
tions among them.

I have no extensive comments on the eco-
nomic crises or any insight into the campaign
for the presidency except to step back in
awe at the imposing, multistoried, ornately
detailed Babylonian facade that pundits have
created almost entirely by weaving together
different strands of fictions untainted by
any facts. Compared to their historic and
ambitious, empire-emulating, architectural
achievements, all I do is whine.

The power and the glory, the magnificent
ambition, and the all-too-pedestrian disgrac-
es: It isn’t that there aren’t many things of
substance to say, but that the sound of my
feet walking drowns out the sound of my
voice talking. It’s not just my elephant-heavy
footsteps that make it hard to hear, but that
the expansive sound of the events roaring over
us each day is as loud as if we were standing
next to Niagara Falls. The effort to be heard
over such a swift and mighty roar is almost
certainly futile and not worth the effort. It is
hard to think when you are shouting, while
sometimes the white-water-rapids run of cur-
rent events becomes so intense you can’t
make out the sky for the rain, the day for the
night, the thunder for the braying.

When so much is happening so quickly,
trying to keep track of the media onslaught
can find one slipping into a self-reflexive, mul-
tilayered narrative wherein the media itself
is too much of the story. This provides little

clarity, usually obscuring the map’s already
almost worn-away images.

Instead, I’ll just whine.

Without embarrassment, the significant
right-wing American media have been tak-
ing their favorite bogeyman - mainstream,
liberal (far-left) media - to task for distorted
reporting on the Republican vice-presidential
candidate. Lou Dobbs actually wondered out
loud, as he denounced the darkest
mono-shade of liberal coverage of
Sarah Palin, as to whether this
reaction from liberals was (and
he dared not say the word but
did strongly imply it) “sex-
ist!” As truly and wickedly
funny as Tina Fey has been on
Saturday Night Live, her parody
doesn’t come close to the stun-
ning audacity of Dobbs’ completely
inauthentic indignation.

The horrid, scarring, sexist, bigoted,
unprecedented slander being heaped upon
her is all the consequence of bias and big-
otry, these fair and balanced pundits of the
far right insist.

I would say “Grow up” if I didn’t figure
they know exactly what they are doing as they
try to manipulate, massage, and excite their
listeners. Palin is getting the same amount
of coverage as almost any vice-presidential
candidate - if not less, due to the fact that
she has been so unavailable for interviews.
The “attacks” on her are for the most part
relatively mild reporting of her often truly
stunning gaffes.

Two points here. As I wrote last week,
right-wing commentators all use almost the
exact same words. As part of their report-
ing on the imaginary, fantastical tale of this
assault on Palin, “unprecedented” is a key
word and concept.

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The blatant hypocrisy here is so overwhelm-
ing as to create new schools of dark comedic
humor. At their best, right-wing coverage of
and comments on Hillary Clinton and Nancy
Pelosi ooze out of the molten, dead center in
hell, while almost none of the comments on
Palin get close to even the farthest outer circles.
Recently, right-wing sources have been kinder
to Clinton, but only because they are happily
using her as a weapon with which to
beat on Obama. If the mainstream
media’s most extreme negative
comments about Palin had been
compared to the daily barrage
against Clinton or Pelosi from the
right, they would have sounded

r practically radical-feminist.

The best defense is a strong
offense; whether or not there is a
widespread media assault on Palin, by
indignantly reporting the story over and over
(and over and over), right-wing pundits are
positioning her as a real earth mother whom
the elite establishment is attacking because
her common decency and pronounced moral
position are anathema to them: the witch
hunts of Salem, directed at this one poor
hockey-mom target.

Homer’s epic tales of the Trojan War had
their roots in oral traditions; they were tales
told over and over. Compared to the bogus,
immoral moralizing of right-wing pundits,
Homer seems as simplistic as Horatio Alger.

I realize the belief that Eskimos have 50 dif-
ferent words for snow has been disputed, but
just entertain the concept. The pundit com-
munity has hundreds of words for villain/traitor,
which they fling around wildly and recklessly.
Then, in actions that simply can’t be satirized,
they puff up their chests to denounce the liberal
far-left media for doing the same thing. Only
that wing of the media is mostly innocent; it is

not spewing nor dealing in the same innuendo
and two-dimensional, black-and-white, hero-
and-villain categorizing as the right.

I’m guessing the memo went out toward
the end of last week, but maybe even later
than that, as it was only at the beginning of
this week that the right-wing talking heads
got lined up in a row. Then, one after another,
they noted that Joe Biden was making a lot
more gaffes than Palin, but the evil, liberal,
Wicked Witch of the West media was ignoring
his and just reporting on hers.

Biden has a long and honorable record as
an elected representative. His gaffes are just
that: mistakes. Palin has not only offered a
truncated history but is being shielded from
reporters as though she were Princess Diana
returned from the dead. Biden’s verbal mis-
takes do not amount to any kind of noticeable
percentage of what we know about him. In
Palin’s case, her mistakes represent an over-
large slice from her biographical pie chart.

The right-wing press denies its own power as
it creates fictions about what kind of coverage
is going on in other “media.” These guys have
entered the woods in Jorge Luis Borges coun-
try - except where he carved out gentle, rolling
natural paths of metafictions and complex
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Every day, right-wing talking heads fire
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media, shattering the ceiling of even distantly
reasoned coverage. When it starts raining, we
all know who complains the loudest about
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IT WAS NOT AN ACRIMONIOUS SPLIT!

Dear Editor,

I read in your article “an acrimonious split from
manager Tom Bunch” and don’t see it as that
[“Out of the Mouths of Children,” Music, Sept. 26].
From 1983-1990, I promoted the majority of the
Butthole Surfers shows in Texas. They were one
of the greatest live bands the planet Earth has
or will ever see. I was lucky enough to see them
more than 100 times. In 1990, I started to man-
age them and stated before that it was like herding
cats. I managed them until 1999. Seventeen years
of dealing with one of the wildest and strangest
groups of people I have ever met. I knew what I
was getting into and accepted it wholeheartedly.
I also managed Paul Leary’s producer career and

Gibby Haynes’ side project with Johnny Depp.
After 17 years of dealing with Gibby on a daily
basis, I had enough. The last four years I man-
aged them, Gibby was not capable of showing
up for anything. He usually just didn’t show up,
and if he did, he wasn’t able to perform. This
was sad for me to see and be involved with.
Many of the projects I set up for Gibby were
friends and business associates of mine, and
he kept blowing off projects (movies, recording
sessions, interviews) or would show up so high
that he couldn’t do his part. I told Paul and
Gibby in 1999 that I didn’t want to manage
them anymore and that I would be happy to
help them tie up their business and find a new
manager. Paul asked me if I would continue to
manage him as a producer, but I had decided
to take some time off and get the ringing out
of my ears. There was a matter of money that
they owed me, as money was consistently
coming in from past and present deals. We
signed a management agreement, and I had
lived up to everything in the contract, and
most people will say I did a great job. Both
Paul and Gibby agreed that they owed me the
money and said they would pay me soon. Six
months later, they hadn’t paid me and wouldn’t
respond to calls or letters. I filed a lawsuit, and
the outcome was they paid me what they owed
me as per the contract, nothing more, nothing

less. The only acrimonious part was going to
the depositions and the mediation and watch-
ing Gibby yell and scream, run around the room,
wave his arms and fists, and call the mediator
a little bitch (like a Butthole Surfers show circa
1987). I never raised my voice, called anyone
names, said or did anything out of line, or asked
for anything more than what they legally, morally,
ethically owed me. I have no hard feelings and
wish them all the success and happiness that
anyone can have in this world.

Thank you ,
Tom Bunch
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LOVES 'MODERN/ NOT ‘MAAKIES’

Dear Editor,

First of all, thanks for accepting e-mails. It’s
so much more convenient. Second of all, thank
you so much for hosting the comic This Modem
World. I love it so much. It’s like a miniserving of
The Daily Show in print. It’s always very funny and
very poignant and relevant. Awesome.

In contrast I have to say: The other front-section
comic you’ve had lately, Maakies, I find to be con-
sistently not only not funny but also a disappointing
waste of time. There is no moral, no message,
nothing that adds anything to my life - I just wind
up saying to myself week after week after reading

it, “That’s just disgusting or ridiculous/ stupid,” or,
“Why are they running this?” I say thumbs down.
We need and want more laughs and more intelli-
gence in our comics. They are out there. Stop wast-
ing our time with this one. It’s idiocracy on paper.

Stephen Summers

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Dear Editor,

Regarding all the letters about Mr. Moser and
the Critical Mass incident from the cyclists, I have
two comments. Critical Mass is designed to do one
thing only - stop automobile traffic and piss off the
drivers. As for all of you cyclists out there who keep
complaining about how there are not enough bike
lanes, use the existing ones first. As a transit rider,
just yesterday while I was waiting on the bus, two
cyclists, within five minutes of each other, were rid-
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forced me out into the street or else get run over by
the cyclists when there is a large, well-marked bike
lane (this is on Metric Boulevard) for their use. But
they insist on making people waiting on the bus
step out into the street and oncoming traffic when
they have a bike lane. If you won’t use the ones
that exist, why do you want more?

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Compliments to Kevin Brass on his “Nix
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recent National Association of Broadcasters’
radio show.

Austin Airwaves also sent in a recon
team to check on the radio show at the
Austin Convention Center and were similarly
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and ownership, and even local music (www.
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outlets despite the NAB’s claim: “America’s
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ANSWER IS SIMPLE: LEAVE!

Dear Editor,

I do not think so! Steve Cobb’s nasty gram
criticizing and belittling everyone and every place
provided some self-disclosure that begs for feed-
back [Postmarks, Sept. 19]. To start, I feel very
sorry for his family, particularly his wife who sup-
ports him while he whines about where he has
to live. No doubt there are other self-absorbed
individuals unwilling to support themselves who
have no tolerance for dissenting opinion also liv-
ing in Austin. Go away.

The answer is that simple. Go back to Portland,
Ore. Get a job. Stop being dependent on your
wife so you can live where you choose. My guess
is that you will still be miserable and miserable
to be around, as well, but at least Austin will be
rid of you and your foul attitude.

I lived in the North Carolina you so happily
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people there. I also have lived in Virginia, South
Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, California, Utah, and
Oxford, England, for three years. I enjoyed the
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Central America. I enjoyed the places and the
people. The people had different views than I in
many areas. I learned from them. I appreciated
the diversity and their right to an opinion. I chose
to retire in Austin at age 50. I took a 30-year
work break, then I retired.

I do not think the problem is Austin, Mr.
Cobb. I think you are predestined to be
unhappy, dependent, and have a strong sense
of entitlement.

Portland calls, Mr. Cobb ... but then you would
have to get a real job.

Nathan L Gibson

LEAVE THE DOGS AT HOME

Dear Editor,

Re: “Wasting Energy” [Postmarks, Sept. 26]:
The letter writer asks, “Who in their right mind
would idle a car for hours with the air condition-
ing on to keep their dogs cool?” I have to ask:
Who in their right mind would leave their dogs
in the car for hours? At least they left the AC
on for the dogs, if they left them in the car. How
about this: Leave the dogs at home, in the air-
conditioned house, and turn the car off!

Jane Adams

WHY CAN’T WE JUST GO SHOPPING?

Dear Editor,

Regarding this Wall Street bailout mess - I
don’t understand why we can’t just “go shop-
ping” again. That’s what fixed 9/11, right?

John Nordstrom

APPALLING AND INSENSITIVE

Dear Editor,

The billboard trucks driving around Austin
with the obviously pro-life ad of an aborted
fetus with the giant letters spelling “choice” is
appalling! I am all for having one’s own opin-
ions, but to put that picture on a truck and drive
it around town is the most insensitive thing
I have ever seen! I sincerely hope they don’t
drive by any victims of incest or rape who this
horrible ad would probably affect the most. The
freedom to choose to make our own decisions
is the most important thing to us, and I hope
the people behind this ad never have a mother,
daughter, or sister fall victim to a rape or inces-
tuous act! I feel the worst for the monsters
behind this ad!

Jason Metzler

TIME TO PARTY

Dear Editor,

When the great assumption underlying not
just all finance but the heart of capitalism itself
- that the overall trend of investments is to
increase in value - comes unraveled, what’s a
poor peasant, with no property or investments to
speak of, to do?

I’ll tell you what! Drink a beer, ride a bike,
smoke what you got, hang out with friends on the
street, and partayl

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THEFT, PURE AND SIMPLE

Dear Editor,

Explain this to me again, please. I have no credit, never did, don’t
want any. I have no debt other than monthly utility bills and property
taxes. I save and pay cash for everything. I live within my means.
Exactly why am I responsible for paying someone else’s debt? Why
am I responsible for bailing out failed businesses? Will somebody
arrest Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. for theft, please? And while
you’re at it, arrest all the other yahoos at the top that put all this
crap into place and profit insanely from it. Theft, pure and simple.

Tom Grimes

FREE MARKET IS NOT ‘FREE’

Dear Editor,

The staggering economic crisis on Wall Street has exposed
a dirty little secret: The free market isn’t really “free,” after all,
unless you’re the CEO of a major bank. What some have called
socialized capitalism for the rich appears to be the running model
that so many senators, including both presidential candidates,
Obama and McCain, are by their own admission reluctantly endors-
ing. But “no need to worry,” they promise us. Both men will tighten
regulations on the out-of-control market and still have money for
tax cuts and health care. Ostensibly, money for war in the Middle
East will still be available, too, since McCain plans to stay in Iraq
and Obama wants to expand the war in Afghanistan.

Of course, the truth as usual probably lies somewhere far away
from the campaign promises of politicians on the stump. Regardless
of who wins, if the fed’s last-ditch efforts to reverse the market’s
credit freeze with billions of dollars of taxpayer money doesn’t work,
neither man will be able to begin to make good on any promise.

Polls show that the recent economic crisis increases voters’
chances of voting for Sen. Obama. But is that confidence based on
facts or rhetoric? Obama has received more money from Wall Street
than McCain - $10 million for Obama, $7 million for McCain - and
Joe Biden voted for George Bush’s bankruptcy reform that made it
harder for regular Americans to claim bankruptcy. Furthermore, nei-

ther Obama nor Biden is for single-payer universal health care, yet
both agreed an equivalent amount ($1 trillion) could be conjured at
the drop of a hat for Wall Street.

Is Obama’s economic plan better than McCain’s? Probably. Is
Obama’s promise of change worth anything? If so, it’s only enough
for a piece of gum to chew as we watch our money burn.

Justin Finney

STOP STEALING MY OBAMA SIGNS

Dear Editor,

Hi, it’s me again, Sandy Chernikowski, complaining about the same
thing I did four years ago in a letter which you published [Postmarks,
Oct. 22, 2004]. Some people kept stealing my Kerry signs, and I was
furious that some reckless idiots were messing with my freedom of
speech. Now the same thing is happening with my Obama signs. Like
I said in my last letter, it is a sad state of affairs when the “ others ”
feel it necessary to destroy or steal signs, thinking that they can win
with this type of behavior. I live in West Campus, and I must assume
that this is not a crime being carried out by other Democrats. I would
like to sabotage the sign with something that would cause the others

to leave behind a trail of blood, but I am not like that. I do not want to
stoop to the level of the ones who are doing this. Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Sandy Chernikowski

FOR THE BAILOUT TO WORK IT NEEDS ...

Dear Editor,

I support the proposed bailout plan, but it must contain the follow-
ing: 1) adequate oversight and accountability; 2) no excessive com-
pensation for officers of bailed-out companies; 3) a taxpayer stake in
bailed-out companies through something like stock warrants so that
if/when the bailed-out company regains value, the taxpayers’ bailout
is recovered, perhaps with profit; and 4) opportunity for endangered
mortgage holders to renegotiate affordable repayment terms.

Without all four of these items, the bailout plan will not work. It
would be no more than complicity in the largest theft in the history
of civilization. A flawed plan will destabilize the very core of our
nation: public trust.

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BY MICHAEL KING

The sky hasn’t fallen.

I suspect you already know that, but roughly a
week ago we were being assured by the the White
House, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the
congressional leadership that if Congress did not
act immediately to avert economic disaster, the
credit markets would freeze and the stock
market would collapse. Congress did not
act - indeed, long past Treasury Secretary
Henry “Leave Everything to Me”

Paulson’s putative deadline, a biparti-
san House rejected the Bush-Paulson
plan, as tinkered by the Democratic
and Republican leadership.

The credit markets did not freeze,
and, despite a dramatic one-day drop, the
stock market did not collapse.

That is not to say that we’re out of the woods,
nor that we can afford to be cavalier about what is
certainly a dangerous financial situation for all of
us, not just Wall Street. Like most people, I hope
to be able to retire some day, and my family’s
financial future rests largely on invested pension
funds accumulated in various jobs over the years,
now put thoroughly at risk because of complex
and faulty financial schemes pursued by the same
high-stakes gamblers who are demanding that you
and I stop the roulette wheel and pay their tab.

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As likely as not, by the time you read this, the
Senate millionaires will have come to Paulson’s
rescue, the House GOP rank-and-file (predictably
bribed by a tax cut) will have been whipped into
fine, and a bill not much different from the one just
defeated will pass. You and I will be the proud own-
ers of many billions’ worth of currently
unmarketable assets, and the interna-
tional stock traders will cheerfully
return to making money on our
money. The credit markets we all rely
on, however, will not appreciably
thaw, because nothing will have been
done to fix the underlying economic
predicament - the collapsing national
housing market - and we’ll stumble
along until the next crisis, or the next admin-
istration, which will have to pick up the pieces.

Roosting Vultures

On Tuesday, before the anticipated Wednesday
Senate vote, I spoke briefly to Austin Rep. Lloyd
Doggett, one of the 95 House Democrats who
voted against the original bill. (It’s worth noting
that House Democratic leadership was not entire-
ly crestfallen at the Dem opposition; they in fact

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Money for Nothing

After the bailout, what then?

> Like the cover says, Monday’s your last
chance. If you haven’t registered to vote yet, get
it done now. See p.22 for registration info.

On Tuesday, Alcoa announced a virtual shut-
down at its Rockdale smelter, laying off 660 peo-
ple for possibly an instant local recession.

City Council convenes this week with a slight
agenda; congratulations to Council Member Randi
Shade, who gave birth to Emily Austin Shade-Shell
on Friday. See “City Hall Hustle,” p.20.

After bungling one attempt, at press time, Con-
gress continued to work on a financial recovery
plan, hoping to pass something - and spend a ton
of money doing so - in the next couple of days.

> The vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden
and Sarah Palin goes down tonight (Thursday) -
gaffes ahoy! Get your debate fix each week with
election vlog Hail to the Hustle, at
austinchronicle.com/hustle.

Naked City

Campaign Trail Cool Cities The Hightower Report The Man in the White Hat

Union members picketed outside Capital Metro headquarters Monday in protest of StarTran’s latest contract offer to bus drivers.
On a related development, see “Gomez to Lead Cap Metro,” p.23.

> FENNELL GETS 10 YEARS

Former Georgetown Police
Sgt. Jimmy Fennell (pic-
tured) on Sept. 26 was hand-
ed a 10-year sentence in the
pen by District Court Judge
Burt Carnes after pleading
guilty to charges of kidnap-
ping and improper sexual
conduct with a person in cus-
tody. Fennell was accused of sexually assaulting
a woman in October 2007, after he’d answered a
call for police service at her home. Fennell was
previously engaged to Stacey Stites, who was
murdered in 1996. Another man, Rodney Reed,
was convicted and sentenced to die for the
crime, but Reed maintains his innocence, and
his supporters suggest that Fennell was a far
more likely suspect - Fennell was angry with
Stites after finding out that she was having an
affair with Reed, they argued, and the police
never fully investigated Fennell as a possible
suspect in the case. (For more, see “Who Killed
Stacey Stites?” May 24, 2002.) - Jordan Smith

> AFD UNDER FIRE On Tuesday, black community
leaders convened a press conference at City Hall
to denounce the Austin Fire Department for

discriminatory hiring practices and to announce
the filing of a lawsuit by Nona Allen, the only
African-American female firefighter at AFD. Allen
accuses the city of relegating her to a bare-
bones locker room while the white, male firefight-
ers enjoy relative luxuries such as couches,
video games, and vending machines. Allen also
said she’s had to routinely remove 300-pound
weights mysteriously placed on a desk and chair
where she studies. AFD brass had excused the
lapses as “miscommunication,” according to
Allen. Akwasi Evans, editor of East Austin’s
Nokoa newspaper, called for reinstating the “con-
sent decree,” which had mandated 20% of the
cadet class be African-American and 20%
Hispanic. The decree expired in 1982, causing a
dearth of minority hiring that endures. “Something
has to be done about that right now,” Evans said
- during current contract negotiations, preferably.
Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder noted the
irony that this “progressive city” has demonstrated
a longtime “lack of enthusiasm” for ensuring equal-
ity at AFD. Though invited, city officials did not show
at the press conference. - Patricia J. Ruland

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QUOTE

of the

WEEK

“The House
passed (by
one vote) a
bill to elimi-
nate barriers
between
banks, bro-
kerage firms
and insur-

ance compa-
nies. This
sets up finan-
cial holding
companies that can offer all
three types of services simulta-
neously. The most obvious risk
is that a blunder in the insur-
ance or brokerage end of the
business could bring down a
bank, putting insured deposits
at risk. The taxpayers, of
course, then wind up with the
tab, as we did with the savings-
and-loan mess.”

- Molly Ivins, soothsaying in her
Sept. 23, 1998 column

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CONTINUED FROM P.19

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> SO MANY BONGS, SO LITTLE SPACE How and where criminal-case evi-

dence is stored was the topic of discussion Sept. 25 during the second
meeting of the state’s new Criminal Justice Integrity Unit, created by
Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey as a way to get stakehold-
ers together to discuss how to fix Texas’ much maligned criminal justice sys-
tem. On Thursday, members heard from cop-turned-consultant John Vasquez,
president of the Texas Association of Property and Evidence Inventory
Technicians, who called evidence storage the “redheaded stepchild” of most
police departments. Departments around the state are plagued by problems
in evidence storage, Vasquez said, citing reports that money, drugs, guns
(30 this year from the Houston PD alone), and other weapons have been
stolen from facilities all over Texas. Departments need better training and
controls on evidence to correct the problems, he said. Indeed, APD’s admin-
istrator over evidence, Ed Harris, told the committee that figuring out where
to put the stuff is a major headache (taking up the most space in APD’s evi-
dence storage is marijuana-growing equipment, he said). Evidence storage
is, of course, no small matter - especially storage of DNA, which may be
needed years after an initial arrest and conviction. - J.S.

> KEEPING AUSTIN’S ENERGY AFFORDABLE When a house in Austin is

sold, an energy audit and energy-use report to buyers may soon become
mandatory, while actual improvements to the home’s energy efficiency
will remain voluntary. That’s the nutshell version of the final Energy
Efficiency Retrofit Task Force recommendations now making their
way toward City Council. (For the full report, see www.coolaustin.org.) The
report goes to the Electric Utility Commission Oct. 20, the Resource
Management Commission Oct. 21, then to council in November.
Remaining in the report is a recommendation that divided the task force
(largely due to pressure from the Austin Board of Realtors and other
real-estate interests): It’s for “mandatory back stop” provisions, which
state that if voluntary program participation isn’t sufficient, then mini-
mal upgrades (made by the purchaser within one year) would become
mandatory. For “Top Ten Reasons to Support the Energy Efficiency
Program,” visit www.affordableenergyforaustin.org. For ABOR’s arguments
against, visit www.keepaustinaffordable.org. “Affordable”: the new omni-
word that can mean anything? - Katherine Gregor

> GREEN WATER TREATMENT PLANT UPDATE A slightly clearer picture

of Project Green - the major Trammell Crow/Constructive Ventures
redevelopment of the Green Water Treatment Plant site Downtown -
emerged Sept. 24 at the first “Urban Workshop” of the Congress for
New Urbanism’s Central Texas chapter. Presenters Tim McCabe, for
Trammell Crow, and Sue Edwards, for the city, said it will take about a
year to craft their master development agreement. Only minimal design
work will proceed before the deal is inked. The developer has promised
Gold LEED certification for all buildings, community design charrettes for
the public open spaces, affordable housing funds, and bike/pedestrian/
transit/ roadway improvements. McCabe said by February 2010, con-
struction of underground parking should begin; building construction
starts could take another 18 months or more. Asked if the city would
invite community input in coming months, while the property is still city-
owned, Edwards said the city couldn’t require any more of the developer,
given the extensive public-benefit requirements established by City
Council. Still possible: a voluntary, developer-hosted community conver-
sation, inviting Austin’s best and brightest to suggest (nonbinding) ways
to optimize the project’s potential. Why not? - K.G.

OCEAN’S SEVEN

When the joint is hoppin’, the cool cats and kitties come knockin’

BY WELLS DUNBAR

Convening the City Council meeting last Thursday, a
stuffed-up Will Wynn announced he had a “serious
enough ear infection” that he might have to hand the
reins over to Mayor Pro Tern Brewster McCracken,
reportedly of sound hearing. Alas, Brewster let us know
his hearing’s “never been the same after the Ted Nugent
concert in eighth grade.” Mike Martinez got in on the
yuks, offering his abuela’s home cure to suck out the bad
juju with a tunneled newspaper and a candle. To which
Wynn replied he held out hopes for the “lemon and whis-
key side. Which I’ve been trying.”

The dais suddenly seemed occupied by Rat Pack extras,
like one of those plotless Vegas features starring Old Blue
Eyes, Sammy, Dino, and company, and littered with cam-
eos, flourishes, and asides to other subjects.

The biggest real news of the week occurred after the
meeting: the arrival of Emily Austin Shade-Sh
Council Member Randi Shade’s 7-pound,

10-ounce bundle of joy, delivered Friday,

Sept. 26, by C-section. The Hustle [Ed.:
and the whole News department] wishes
baby Emily, Shade, and her partner Kayla
long happiness and good health, and the
council member a speedy recovery. You
have a head start , if you are among the very
young at heart . . .

As for the meeting itself, the first major
cameo came from Save Our Springs Alliance Director
Bill Bunch, urging the council to reconsider or postpone
the allocation of $4.5 million for engineering of the
Jollyville transmission line from long-planned Water Treat-
ment Plant No. 4. “It was not an emergency then,” when
first presented, said Bunch; “it’s not an emergency now.”
However, after some echoing questioning of staff by Laura
Morrison, the spending item was adopted unanimously.
Well , did you ever ...?

Next ready for her close-up was ACLU Austin head
Debbie Russell. Ostensibly signed up to speak about jail
booking arrangements between the city and the county,
she used the opportunity to discuss the “citation option”
she’s advocated for personally and as a member of the

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Public Safety Task Force. As already approved by the
Texas Legislature, cities can issue tickets and citations
for minor misdemeanors like pot possession, which
Russell points out would save millions of dollars in book-
ing costs. Wynn remarked that in recent discussions with
Police Chief Art Acevedo, the top cop was “very optimis-
tic” about working with Austin’s surrounding areas (e.g.,
Travis County) in giving police citation discretion. Some
came runnin ' ...

Also on the police front came a center-stage perfor-
mance from City Manager Marc Ott, who usually assumes
a smaller, supporting role on the dais. He was there to
oversee ratification of city contracts with the police and
EMS departments. While calling the contracts “balanced”
and “a win-win set of circumstances for both the city and
our two unions,” he continued, “these are in my opinion

tract alone representing “a 48 percent reduction,
$7 million compared to the previous three years.”
The most special guest appearance belonged to
development attorney Richard “He Did It His
Way” Suttle, who was representing the Dell
Jewish Community Center in an expansion pro-
posal that was the most contentious zoning case

the strong emotions he inevitably stirs in the room,
Suttle better served his clients by not speaking at length
himself, instead inviting the dozens of JCC supporters in
the chambers to stand. Noise and congestion were the
specific issues, as some neighbors complained the cen-
ter’s current incarnation is quite large and loud enough;
the PUD zoning that the “J” (as it is familiarly known)
wants would enable it to build a second synagogue, day-
care centers, and more. After some hallway negotiations
among the various parties, the J’s PUD was approved
unanimously, with the proviso for expanded neighborhood
notification of any additional future changes.

That's life! ■

If you hipsters recognize all the Sinatra references , drop me a
line at: wells@austinchronicle.com.

res mi folica FOR MORE DETAILS AND EVENTS, SEE COMMUNITY LISTINGS, P.76.

THURSDAY

CONVERSATION CAFE Learn to improve your
dialoguing skills at this meeting of minds and
words. 6:15-9pm. Renaissance Hotel , 9721
Arboretum. Free, www.conversationcafe.org.

GANDHI’S BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION 6pm.

Huston-Tillotson University
900 Chicon, Davage-
Durden Building.
www.austinpeacecenter.org.

MEET LARRY JOE
DOHERTY Find out
more about the District
10 candidate (see p.32),
joined tonight by special
guest U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett. 5:30-7 :30pm.
Headliners Club , 221 W. Sixth. RSVP to
cburton@braunassociateslaw.com. www.larryjoe.com.

POLITICAL ACTION BOOK CLUB discusses
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Dis-
aster Capitalism. 6:30pm. Wells Branch Community
Library 15001 Wells Port Dr :, 989-3188. Free.

VEEP DEBATE WATCH PARTY Biden vs. Palin -
don’t miss it. 6-9:30pm. Scholz Garten , 1607 San
Jacinto , 474-1958. www.scholzgarten.net.

FRIDAY

BILL OF RIGHTS DINNER honors Pulitzer Prize-
winning cartoonist Ben Sargent with the Molly Ivins
Give ’Em Hell Award. 6:30pm. UT Alumni Center ;
2110 San Jacinto. $125. www.texascivilrightsproject.org.

BURLESQUE THE VOTE Bet you never thought
registering to vote could be sexy. (See “Tickling
Voters’ Fancies,” p.22, for more.) 9pm. Antone’s,
213 W. Fifth , 320-8424. $15, standing; $30, seated.

GETTING TAKS ON TRACK explores alterna
tives to the TAKS test. l-4pm. First United Method-
ist Church, 1201 Lavaca, 478-5684.

HURRICANE IKE FUNDRAISER A DJ and food
await those who bring items for Capital Area Food
Bank. 6-9pm. Molotov Lounge, 719 W. Sixth. Free.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIALOGUE &
DELIBERATION Learn to build community, foster
collaborative action, and make the world a better
place through communication skills at this three-day
event. Fri.-Sun., Oct. 3-5. www.ncdd.org/ncdd2008.

FRANK B. WILDERSON III discusses his
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. 3pm.
Follett’s Intellectual Property, 2402 Guadalupe.
TEXAS GREEN NETWORK MIXER 4-7pm.
German-Texan Heritage Society, 507 E. 10th. RSVP to
rsvp@texasgreennetwork.org. www.texasgreennetwork.org.

SATURDAY04

PROJECT BEAT All are welcome at this monthly
community roundtable on race. 9:30am-noon. St.
James’ Episcopal Church, 1941 Webberville.

TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK GALA 7:30pm.
La Zona Rosa , 612 W. Fourth, 322-0545. $50.
www.tfn.org/votetfn.

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CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK/RED CROSS
BENEFIT DJs, B-boy battles, and more - all pro-
ceeds help those who are helping Hurricane Ike
evacuees, so be generous with your food and
cash donations. 8pm-12mid. Gallery Lombardi,

602 W. Seventh. Free, www.gallerylombardi.com.

HOT TALK: 2008 ELECTION EDITION Part
moderated forum, part opportunity for constitu-
ents to meet with local candidates Larry Joe
Doherty, Mark Strama, Donna Howard, and oth-
ers. 5-8pm. Dell Jewish Community Center ; 7300
Hart, 735-8012 xl9. Free, www.jcaaonline.org.

MONDAY

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE! See

p.22 for details on registering and verifying your
status.

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www.turntexasblue.com.

ANN WRIGHT The retired Army
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science. 7pm. BookWoman, 5501
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RICK NORIEGA talks about
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TUESDAY

DEBATE WATCH PARTY McCain vs. Obama,
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701 W. Riverside. $5 suggested donation.
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FAREWELL PARTY Join the Travis Co. Dems
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wanted the Bush bill to be carried primarily
by the Republicans.) In his floor statements,
Doggett had spoken strongly against the
take-it-or-leave-it posture of the draft three-
page bill, and even more strongly of the crisis
atmosphere promoted by Paulson and the
White House and their insistence that if the
bill is not passed as is, certain disaster will
follow. To Doggett, it was all too reminiscent
of the standard Bush operating procedure.
“Like the Iraq war and the PATRIOT Act, this
bill is fueled by fear and hinges on haste. . . .
Action or inaction - that’s a false choice; it is
a matter of never seriously considering any
alternative to just giving $700 billion to the
same Bush administration that has done so
much to create this crisis and for whom the
vultures have now come home to roost.”

A few days later, Doggett didn’t have much
reason to change his mind - “all these
[threats of disaster] are designed to build
fear” - although he was quick to acknowl-
edge “a very serious financial challenge that
needs prompt attention.” What continues to
bother him and other opponents is that the
current bill retains its initial structure: grant-
ing billions for transfer to investment firms
and enormous power to the Treasury, with-
out sufficient taxpayer equity or adequate
oversight. As he put it on the floor: “Not
even Avon and Mary Kay can compete with
the cosmetics in this bill. This 100-page bill:
three pages of what Secretary Paulson would
do, 97 pages of what he could do, plus
excuses for approving the first three pages.”
Unless the newly proposed Senate bill chang-
es significantly from that pattern, he said,
he’ll likely oppose it. “As long as it does not
get Wall Street to pay the costs and leaves the
taxpayer unprotected, I’m inclined to vote
against it,” said Doggett.

Asked why he thought House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi and other Dem leaders support
the Bush proposal, he said: “They don’t want
to be held responsible if things [in the

economy] turn bad, but they also want it to
be Bush’s bill, so they haven’t changed it
very much. ... I understand their logic, but I
don’t agree with it.” The result might well be
described as the worst of both worlds.

Never Again

Assuming some sort of massive bailout -
still the accurate and damnable term - pass-
es, where will it leave the rest of us? While it
might be gleeful to watch the mighty falling,
whatever happens we can all expect a harsh-
er job market, tighter credit, fewer opportu-
nities to alter or improve our circumstances.
That’s if we’re lucky, and the whole eco-
nomic house of cards doesn’t domino and
collapse in the next year.

But once we do, in fact, save the well-
padded behinds of these pinstripe hustlers
and well-manicured con artists, never again
should we listen to them when they whine,
“We can’t afford it.” Much more than pre-
dictable stock and credit markets, this coun-
try needs a decent, universal health-care
system; a rebuilt national infrastructure;
sound, permanently funded public educa-
tion; decent and affordable housing for
every citizen; expanded and affordable high-
er education for any qualifying student; and
massive investment in renewable energy and
environmental protection. And that’s just
for starters.

During the past eight years, thanks to the
current regime in Washington, we’ve spent
trillions on two unnecessary wars that con-
tinue to devour blood and money, and we’re
now about to spend $800 billion or so on
fixing a mess made by greedheads who for the
last decade have aspired to make King Midas
look like St. Francis. If we’re required to save
their sorry asses, we should at least never let
any of them tell us, ever again, that we can’t
afford to spend the money to build a country
fit for ordinary citizens to live in. ■

SEN. KIRK WATSON joins St. David’s Com-
munity Health Foundation CEO Earl Maxwell to
discuss the country’s changing power structure.
7:30-9am. Chez Zee , 5406 Balcones, 454-2666.
$25 ($20, members), www.leadershipaustin.org.

WEDNESDAY

BOARDWALK TRAIL AT LADY BIRD LAKE

How do you envision the new proposed hike-and-
bike trail? Share your thoughts at tonight’s public
meeting, or fill out the survey at www.ci.austin.
tx.us/boardwalk. See “Public Input,” p.22, for
more. 6-7 :30pm. Parks & Rec. Board Room,

200 S. Lamar.

METROPOLITAN BREAKFAST CLUB: LAR-
RY JOE DOHERTY The District 10 candidate
talks about the future of water in Texas. 7am.
Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, UT Club,
sixth floor. $15. www.mbcaustin.org.

THURSDAY09

BILL BISHOP discusses his book The Big Sort:
Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tear-
ing Us Apart. 7pm. Faulk Central Library, 800
Guadalupe, 974-7400.

CLEAN CARBON SUMMIT features keynotes
from Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. John Cornyn.

What? Thu.-Fri., Oct. 9-10. Omni Hotel Downtown,
700 San Jacinto. $850 ($425, student), in advance,
$700 ($350, student), www.cleancarbonsummit.com.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS hosts a panel
discussion this evening on public financing of the
judiciary, preserving impartiality in the election of
judges, and keeping the public informed about the
role of judges. 7pm. LCRA Red Bud Center, 3601
Lake Austin Blvd. www.lwvaustin.org.

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In case you haven’t noticed,
voter registration ends this week
- on Monday, Oct. 6, to be

exact. If you don’t sign up by
then, you’ll be left out in the
cold on Nov. 4 while the rest
of us are taking part in the
most exciting election to come
along in decades - how will you
explain that to your grandkids
someday? How embarrassing!

Actually, what could be really
embarrassing is if you show up at the
polls on Election Day thinking you’re reg-
istered ... only to find out that you’re not.
It could happen, you know. According to
Travis Co. Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir,

“Thousands of people every election
think they’re registered and find out
they’re wrong on Election Day.”

Tax Assessor-Collector Nelda Wells
Spears recommends that all voters take
care of three things before Monday: 1)
Register to vote if you haven’t already,

2) update your address if you’ve moved
since the last election, and 3) double-
check your registration - just ’cuz.
Luckily, most of this can be accom-
plished online.

Go to www.traviscountytax.org to verify
your status or to print out a registration
form (you can also call 854-9473). If
you’re a Travis Co. voter who’s moved
within the county, you can update your

address at www.state.tx.us/NASApp/sos/
SOSACManager (you’ll need your voter reg-
istration certificate number, which can
be found with your voter verification info
atwww.traviscountytax.org if you don’t have
your certificate). For voting assistance or
to apply for a mail ballot (applications
must be made by Oct. 28), go to
www.traviscountyelections.org or call 854-4996.

If you’re a Hurricane Ike evacuee, you
still need to register to vote by Oct. 6. You
don’t have to be in your home county to
register; if you are still displaced on
Election Day, you can cast a ballot by mail,
or you can register as a Travis Co. resident
and vote here.

- Nora Ankrum and Lee Nichols

TICKLING VOTERS’ FANCIES

Katie of
Burlesque
for Peace

“The theme of
the show is a sexy
librarian voter-
registration drive.”
- Audrey Maker,
event organizer

With the Oct. 6 voter-registration
deadline hurtling toward would-be vot-
ers, it still seems some people can’t
get motivated to sign up for their cards.
How about liberally sprinkling some old-
fashioned glamour into the mix as a
motivator? That’s the aim of the
Burlesque the Vote event at Antone’s
this Friday, Oct. 3, at 8pm - three days
before the voter-registration deadline.

“The theme of the show is a sexy
librarian voter-registration drive,”
explained organizer Audrey Maker, who
has merged figure-hugging with form-fill-
ing before. “Four years ago, I had an
event where you had to register to get
into the show, and it was a big suc-
cess,” she said.

The evening’s combination of the
political and the pulchritudinous will
include performances from local bur-
lesque troupes Kitty Kitty Bang
Bang, Carousel Cabaret, and the
Jigglewatts, plus Dallas’ Lollie
Bombs and Maker’s own ensemble,
Burlesque for Peace. “Some of them
are doing something very political, and
some are doing something silly,” said
Maker. “It’s a way to deal with this
election and a way to bring some fun
into it.”

Tickets are $15 general admission or
$30 seated, and proceeds from this non-
partisan event go to the American Civil
Liberties Union Central Texas Chapter.

- Richard Whittaker

Public Input

No Exceptions for Ike-Displaced Voters

A request by several citizen groups to
extend the voter-registration deadline in coun-
ties hit by Hurricane Ike appears to be
going nowhere. Last week, Houston Votes,
the League of Women Voters of Texas, and
other groups asked Gov. Rick Perry to use
his emergency powers to extend the Oct. 6
deadline (to register for the Nov. 4 election)
by another week in the 29 counties declared
disaster areas in the wake of Ike. “Many
Texans already have lost all their posses-
sions to Hurricane Ike; they should not also
lose their right to vote this November,” said
Fred Lewis of Houston Votes, a collaboration
of nonprofits registering people in Harris Co.

The governor’s office responded that they
would consider such a request only if it
came from county officials, and thus far, it
has received none. “The secretary of
state’s office has been in touch with those
counties that were impacted, and they’re
not getting any indication that there are any
problems,” said Perry spokeswoman
Allison Castle. “There’s still plenty of time
to register, and you can do that from any-
where; you don’t even have to be in your

home county. You can
go to the secretary of
state’s website [www.sos.
state.tx.us/elections/voter/
reqvr.shtml], fill out and
print a registration form,
and stick it in the mail.”

The Chronicle con-
tacted a few voter reg-
istrars in affected coun-
ties, and they agreed -
although, notably, we
were unable to contact
officials with Galveston County, the hardest
hit. Officials with Waller, Brazoria, and
Jefferson counties said they planned no
such request, and George Hammerlein,
director of voter registration in Harris
County, said: “We’re on top of it. There
was plenty of time before Ike to register,
and in the weeks after. ... There is still
plenty of reaction time.” Hammerlein said
that even at emergency supplies stations
after Ike, registration cards have been
made available.

- Lee Nichols

Good news! The city’s already halfway through its public input process on the
Boardwalk Trail at Lady Bird Lake. Went by like a flash, didn’t it? The proposed trail
would stretch from the Austin American-Statesman near Congress Avenue, under 1-35,
and past the apartments on Riverside and Lakeshore, to connect to Lakeshore park.
The city’s website (www.cityofaustin.org/boardwalk) says that “the city will be hold-
ing community-wide meetings during September and October to ensure that Austinites
have a voice in designing her vision.” Unfortunately, the website wasn’t launched until
Sept. 25. That’s the night we got a press release saying that what appears to be the
first of only two public meetings was happening in five days, too late for us to have
any notice about it in the paper. (It happened last night, Wednesday; hope you were
there.) At this point, a week later, there are still no details about the plan on the one-
page site except for a single .jpg map. Still, the city wants “to ensure that Austinites
have a voice in the design process.” So hurry down to the only other scheduled “com-
munity-wide meeting,” Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Parks and Recreation Department
Board Room, 200 S. Lamar, 6-7:30pm. - Nick Barbaro

ON NOV. 4, WHO WILL
YOU HAIL TO?

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Lipstick on pigs. With the fate of
the free world hinging on
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Say Goodbye, and watch the Debate

Here’s a political twofer you won’t want to miss. On Tuesday, Oct. 7, the Travis County
Democratic Party will host a farewell bash in honor of retiring district judges Jeanne Meurer
and Margaret Cooper, who over a combined 40 years have presided over some of Austin’s
most illustrious court cases. A handful of local law offices - from white-shoe firms to scuffed-
shoe - are throwing down money to help pay for the shindig, but you’ll be asked to do your part
for this Democratic fundraiser, too. Tickets are $100 for the event, which starts at 5:30pm in
the Kodosky Donor Lounge at the Long Center. Next up is the presidential debate watch
party at 8pm in the Long’s main hall. Admission is free (with a $5 suggested donation). RSVP
for the watch party at www.tumtexasblue.com. Questions on either event? Call county Democratic
headquarters, 477-7500.

22 the Austin chronicle October 3, 2008 austinchronicle.com

Rosemary Lehmberg, running unopposed to replace retiring veteran Travis Co. District
Attorney Ronnie Earle, was honored last week during a reception at City Hall where she was
lauded as a trailblazing woman. Indeed, when she takes office, Lehmberg will be the first
woman to hold the county’s top law-enforcement job. Her achievements - she’s been with
the D.A.’s office for more than 31 years - were acknowledged by local officials, including
Mayor Will Wynn, who declared Sept. 24 to be Rosemary Lehmberg Day. - Jordan Smith

Gomez to Lead Cap Metro Board

Margaret Gomez was elected chair of
the Capital Metro Board on Monday. She
is a Travis Co. commissioner representing
Precinct 4. Austinite Gomez said she will
focus on mobility and strive to build stron-
ger regional consensus on how Cap Metro
should move forward.

Capital Metro is currently facing multiple,
complex issues that impact all of Central
Texas as it strives to add regional rail ser-
vice, raise fares, resolve labor disputes,
facilitate land-use and transportation plan-
ning (e.g., transit-oriented development),
and expand its services as demand rises
with gas prices. As a county commissioner
since 1995 and a Cap Metro board mem-
ber (most recently as vice chair) since
1997, Gomez has rarely been known for
visible leadership or out-front activism
on issues; she characterized herself as
more of a careful researcher and quiet
consensus-builder.

Asked for her leadership vision for 2008-
09, Gomez said, “I’m committed to the
original purpose for the creation of Capital
Metro in 1985, which is to be sure we
move people around safely and consistent-
ly.” She said she would stress legislative
issues, proactive planning, and the budget
impacts of the larger economy. Her high-
est priority as board chair: “I really want
to be inclusive of all the people in the
community, so we don’t leave anybody off
the bus.”

The board represents both urban and
suburban/regional perspectives. Mike

Martinez had sought the influential chair
position, promising to bring strong leader-
ship to resolving labor and other issues
and to championing Austin’s needs. He
had taken a more activist stance than
Gomez on the need to implement changes
at the transit agency. But prior to the
vote, fellow City Council Member
Brewster McCracken had thrown his
support to John Cowman; the Leander
mayor sought to give stronger representa-
tion to Williamson Co. interests and sup-
ported a comprehensive regional solution.
(McCracken said Martinez, unlike
Cowman, had never talked to him about
becoming chair.) With the backing of
CAMPO board appointee John Trevino,
Gomez became the centrist choice for
serving out the last year of the chair
vacancy created by Lee Walker’s resigna-
tion. The final vote was 6-1, with only
Cowman voting for Cowman.

The vice chair spot went to Jamie
Jatzlau; the Manor City Council member
edged out Martinez by one vote. Elected
secretary was Mike Manor, the new
CAMPO appointee. That leaves the city of
Austin - which provides some 90% of the
agency’s financing, through sales tax financ-
ing - without a formal board leadership
position. On Oct. 1, the board was sched-
uled to hold a three-hour retreat to discuss
goals, long-range planning issues, and
pressing matters such as the opening date
for its Red Line MetroRail service.

- Katherine Gregor

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The Pecan Street Project

Austin and AE form high tech partnership
for the next "big challenge in clean energy

BY KATHERINE GREGOR

Can the city of Austin become a savior of
the nation’s energy future?

That’s the lofty goal announced for a new
clean-energy initiative dubbed, for local flavor,
“the Pecan Street Project.” After six months
of quiet brainstorming, the futurist project
gained stature last week when City Council
resolved to work with partners to develop a
next-steps plan. The mission: “To make the
city of Austin into America’s clean energy lab-
oratory - a place for researchers and entre-
preneurs to develop, test, and implement the
urban power system of the future.”

To initial participants, such as the
Austin Chamber of Commerce,

Austin Technology Incubator,
and the national Environmental
Defense Fund, that scope makes
the project tremendously exciting.

To skeptics, Austin’s proposed
national preeminence may sound over-
reaching. Yet three short decades ago, few
would have predicted that Austin would
become such a high tech center - more than
3,300 tech companies employing more than
100,000 people.

The partners say Austin is an ideal real-
world lab due to its constellation of industry,
semiconductor, supercomputing, and software
players. Strong local support for green power
and clean tech is another plus. And factor in
Austin Energy’s singular status as
the only city-owned utility in the only
U.S. state not subject to federal regu-
latory controls (which the participants
say would unnecessarily delay such
innovations).

Spearheading the project is Mayor
Pro Tern Brewster McCracken,

backed by Austin Energy General
Manager Roger Duncan. (The City
Council serves as AE’s board of
directors, and the mayor is board
chair; it should not go unnoticed that
McCracken is a presumptive mayoral
candidate for May 2009.) Joining
McCracken in sponsoring the council
resolution were Randi Shade and
Laura Morrison, the other members
of the Council Committee for
Emerging Technologies and
Telecommunications.

“At this point, it’s too early to say
how this would shape up, but the ulti-
mate goal would be to create some-
thing like Sematech,” observed Shade,
who was involved with the 2001
launch of the Austin Clean Energy
Initiative. The Sematech consortium was
instrumental in transforming Austin into a
high tech city, starting with just 13 members
in the early Eighties.

“There are some really great folks who are
part of the conversation,” observed Morrison.
Power partners on board include UT-Austin
and the IC2 Institute. Representing UT have
been Michael Webber, associate director

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cities

for UT’s Center for International Energy and
Environmental Policy, and Marcia Inger, chief
development officer for the Texas Advanced
Computing Center. Representing 1C 2 is Isaac
Barchas, director of the Austin Technology
Incubator, which has helped start more than
150 tech companies locally since 1989.
Championing local economic development
opportunities is Jose Beceiro, director of
clean energy at the Austin Chamber of Com-
merce. (For more, see www.austin-chamber.org/
dobusiness/theaustinadvantage/energy.html.)

The Environmental Defense Fund, an advo-
cate for solutions to global warming,
decided to make the Pecan Street
Project a national initiative, after
being invited to the table by
McCracken and Barchas. “They’ve
convinced us and others to put in
resources to try and make this hap-
pen,” said EDF’s Texas Director Jim
Marston. EDF’s New York, California, and
Washington, D.C., offices are contributing staff
experienced in partnering with corporations (e.g.
FedEx) and electric utility issues. EDF brings
relationships with key corporate leaders - such
as Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric -
established through its U.S. Climate Action
Project. The nonprofit will not be compensated
by the city or AE: “Our client is the environment
and global warming,” explained Marston.

The Four Initiatives

The Pecan Street Project has outlined this four-part plan:

1) Create a consortium: The city of Austin will help ere
ate and fund a new local, public/private consortium devoted
to the research and development of clean energy technolo-
gies and distributed generation systems. It will thus work to
reduce energy consumption, air pollution, and greenhouse
gas emissions.

2) City as lab: Austin Energy will open its grid to entrepre-
neurs and researchers to test a few megawatts of their proto-
type technologies - after ensuring they pose no threat to our
energy system’s safety and reliability.

3) Create business model: As the consortium develops
a new distributed generation system for clean energy, Austin
Energy will correspondingly develop a new profitable business
model for the utility’s services.

4) Show the world how it works: Austin will become
the first city to test-drive the new system and business model.
As a result, we’ll enjoy energy savings that will - in theory -
prevent the need for an entire new power plant.

A TOTAL REINVENTION

As cities seek sources of power other than
petroleum and coal, clean energy sources
such as wind and solar represent the great
hope. The most daunting technical question
is how to store and distribute alternative
energy on the massive scale needed to
power a city. A primary goal of the Pecan

Street Project is to advance the technology
and infrastructure by offering Austin Energy’s
grid as a real-world lab for the development
and testing of prototypes. The idea is for
Austin to jump-start innovation while promot-
ing an economy-stoking local industry sector.
On the smart-generation side, the push is for
new solar technologies (such as thin-film
photovoltaics sprayed on buildings) that can
vastly increase the solar power collected
daily. Equally important, states a Pecan
Street Project info sheet, is “a total re inven-
tion of how energy is distributed and stored.”
Historically, energy has flowed in
only one direction, from a central
power plant to consumers. Under
the new model of distributed gener-
ation, energy will flow both ways.
Potentially, most consumers can
generate small modules of energy -
via on-site rooftop solar panels, for
example, or recharged and plugged-
in electric cars - near the point
where the power is needed. Excess
energy could be provided back to
the grid - that is, a city’s overall,
integrated system for electricity dis-
tribution. But as Roger Duncan
emphasizes, this “total reinvention”
will in turn demand a whole new
business model for electric utilities.
As the distinction between consum-
ers and producers dissolves, how
will AE charge for its services so as
not to go bankrupt going green?
That’s a challenge as imperative as
the technological one. Duncan is on
the national forefront of trying to
solve it. To date, the city-owned util-
ity has been a huge municipal profit
center and an irreplaceable funder of city
initiatives. For 2008-2009 alone, $95 mil-
lion in excess profits was transferred from
AE to fund the municipal budget. If those
profits diminish or vanish, taxpayers will
need to make up the difference - or lose
corresponding city programs and services.

Lest “reinventing the grid” sound like
hyperbole, it’s worth noting that Silicon

Valley is working on the same challenge.

The concern of major corporations: protect-
ing the long-term reliability of the energy
resources needed to run our chip-powered
nation (and their products). On Sept. 17,
Google and GE announced a partnership to
“focus on improving power generation, trans-
mission and distribution - a combination of
technologies that could be known as the
‘smart grid.’” (See release posted at www.
googleblog.blogspot.com; for news on corre-
sponding green-grid philanthropic invest-
ments, see www.google.org.) Google announced:
“We’ll start by working together in Washington,
D.C. to mount a major policy effort to enable
large-scale deployment of renewable energy
generation in the United States. We’ll also
work on development and deployment of
the ‘smart’ electricity grid. ... Finally, we’ll
collaborate on advanced energy technolo-
gies, including technologies to enable the
large-scale integration of plug-in vehicles
into the grid.”

McCracken and other project members
have been anticipating this announcement
since the spring. The council member for-
warded the news with a wry note: “Now if
they could just find a utility to partner with
them ... a progressive public utility that could
offer access to the grid and didn’t need any
federal regulatory approval to start work.
Anyone know where we might find a utility
like that?”

For now, as Morrison emphasized, Pecan
Street is just a research project to which the
city has dedicated no new staff or funds.
Marston and others said they hope to
announce consortium partners at the Clean
Energy Venture Summit 2008, to occur
Dec. 2-4 at the AT&T Executive Education
and Conference Center. A completed busi-
ness plan could take another nine months.
“There are a lot of moving pieces; that’s the
hardest part,” Marston acknowledged. As for
devoting scarce Environmental Defense Fund
resources: “It’s a little scary, but it also has
the potential of very high reward. It will have
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Making It, Weirdly DIY pedicab hits the street

Projects in various stages of completion litter the back yard
of Luke Iseman’s East Austin home. A homemade, battery-
operated welder, five 4-by-4 planters crowned with PVC pipe
(to funnel gray water, someday), and indecipherable mounds
of scraps surround the centerpiece of the yard, an enclosure
housing two chickens. They’re the lone survivors of a flock of
more than 20, Iseman says, which suffered rapid attrition at
the teeth of raccoons and other predators.

Iseman, shirtless and tanned, motions to a motorcycle lean-
ing against the house: “It’s electric,” he says. “I built it myself.”

“It worked for 40 seconds,” teases Iseman’s girlfriend and
housemate, Amanda May. “We have it on tape.”

“No, it worked for 10 minutes,” Iseman retorts.

Iseman and May are uber do-it-yourselfers. Their concept of
DIY goes beyond tiling a bathroom or painting a bedroom.

They aspire to make just about everything they need to live.

For instance, they’re working toward food independence. The
planters, filled with a special mix of soil, are slated to grow
all of the couple’s fruits and vegetables. A new flock of chicks
maturing in a back room of the house will supply eggs. And
they intend to plant an “edible forest” behind their house.

They’re also inventors. May says she holds the patent on a
clear bra strap. (However, she says due to legal complica-
tions, she’s not been able to profit much from her invention.)

Iseman invented a bike-alarm stun gun. The device, when
activated via cell phone, looses electric pulses through a sto-
len bike’s handlebars to shock the bike nabber’s hands.

And they’ve also launched DIY careers of sorts. May, an
accountant, and Iseman, who worked in business development
for a local dot-com, quit their day jobs months ago in favor of
more independent work. May started the Purple Fig Clean-
ing Company, which uses only natural products, and Iseman
opted to pedal for an Austin pedicab company. Their goal is
to work fewer hours so that they have time to invent and
build things.

A couple of months ago, Iseman decided to strike out on
his own as an independent pedicab driver. As an indy, he could
rake in $400 or more per weekend without having to pay a fee
to use a pedicab. Naturally, he planned on building his pedicab
himself. To that end, Iseman consulted websites that provide
patent-free design plans and instructions posted by other
DIYers. (One such site, www.instmctables.com, offers how-to help
on items ranging from Halloween costumes and chocolate
mousse to stereo speakers and solar panels.) That’s how
Iseman learned to build the welder and the electric motorcy-
cle. But the sites lacked plans for a pedicab. Iseman was
undaunted. He would simply design one from scratch.

Pedicabs seen on the streets of Austin are constructed, like
bicycles, of welded tubes of steel or aluminum. Lacking weld-
ing skills (he’s learning), Iseman chose another path. He
bought scrap Telespar perforated galvanized steel tubing from

a local road-construction company.

(Telespar is used to erect stop signs.)

He fashioned a frame from the tubing,
bolted it together, suspended (with
springs) a swath of Army-surplus canvas
for a seat, hitched the frame to his bike,
and called it a pedicab. The pedicab
cost Iseman $300 to build, compared to
$2,000 or more for a manufactured one.

Then he went to have it inspected.

The city’s Public Works’ Transporta-
tion Division’s Ground Transportation
Section inspects and approves all new
pedicabs that operate on Austin’s
streets. Usually the inspection is a rou-
tine affair that takes just a few min-
utes. Enter Iseman and his homegrown
contraption. Iseman’s assigned inspec-
tor, Michael Bradburn, was not
impressed. He failed Iseman’s pedicab four times.

Steve Grassfield, transportation regulation manager, rat-
tles off a list of violations found on Iseman’s pedicab during
the four inspections. The sharp edges of the steel tubing
were exposed (Iseman later covered the edges with blue
foam padding). There was no front or rear lighting. The bolts
lacked locking washers or nuts. The required slow-moving
vehicle sign was hung upside down. The seat was unsafe.
During one riding inspection, Grassfield says, Iseman
stopped quickly and Grassfield was thrown from the seat and
onto the pavement.

Eventually, Iseman fixed all of those problems, but his tires
became a sticking point - one that threatened to bring down
the entire pedicab industry in Austin. Bradburn told Iseman
that he needed bike tires that could bear 1,000 pounds.
However, a weight requirement for tires is not listed on the
pedicab inspection sheet provided by the city. In fact, the list
doesn’t mention tires at all. (“It doesn’t say anything about
flying off the seat, either,” Grassfield responds. “You have to
use a little common sense here.”)

Iseman couldn’t find a bike tire rated for 1,000 pounds, so
instead, he called around town and found out what brand of
tires are commonly used by pedicab services (Maxxis
Hookworms, which are rated at 200 pounds) and bought a
pair. Still, Iseman says, Bradburn insisted on the weight rat-
ing information. Meanwhile, Bradburn joined the Austin pedi-
cab Yahoo group in search of information about tires. When
word got out that the city might require 1,000-pound ratings
on tires - which would require operators to buy a new set of
tires for every pedicab in the city - the online community
began berating Iseman (not Bradburn) for putting the entire
industry at risk.

“It’s all good and cool to be a rebel and all that, to let your
freak flag fly and all, but you are quite likely putting the entire
Austin industry at risk by trying to get that piece of sculpture
passed as a legit people carrier,” wrote Yahoo poster Billy 0.
“How many people are you willing to hurt in order to get the
city to do it your way?”

A frustrated Iseman felt that Bradburn had insisted on the
arbitrary weight rating and wouldn’t pass his pedicab because
the inspector was prejudiced against his homemade contrap-
tion. “He didn’t like it just because it was DIY,” Iseman says.
“He thinks I’m some goofball guy he can scare away.”

“Boy, was he wrong!” May laughs.

In Iseman’s mind, the city should be supportive of his ini-
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transportation, and he’s generally contributing to Austin’s
cherished, keep-it-weird culture. “Talk about the creative
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Grassfield, who fielded my call to Bradburn, says that the
inspectors were just doing their jobs - making sure the pedi-
cab was street-legal and safe. “This is the first homemade
pedicab we’ve had,” Grassfield says. “We gave [Iseman] plen-
ty of opportunity.”

After input from anxious pedicabbers on the Yahoo group,
Bradburn relented on the 1,000-pound requirement and
deemed the Maxxis Hookworms suitable. “I received and
researched enough info, and we have determined the pedi-
cabbers can continue using the tires they have always been
using,” declared Bradburn in a Sept. 2 post.

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tpj Campaign Complaint Leads Back to wilCo

On Sept. 17, public interest nonprofit
Texans for Public Justice announced it had
filed criminal and civil complaints against
Texas 3rd Court of Appeals Chief Justice
Kenneth Law, alleging illegal and unethical
fundraising practices and calling for $235,000
in penalties. TPJ’s criminal complaint, now
under review by Travis Co. Attorney David
Escamilla, alleges Law did not renew a 2002
treasurer’s designation with the Texas Ethics
Commission, as required, until Jan. 22,
2008, almost seven months after he began
raising “tens of thousands of campaign dol-
lars in violation of Texas law.” The complaint
also claims that Law accepted a $1,000
donation from the Washington-based
KochPAC (affiliated with Kansas-based
Koch Corp.) but did not comply with dis-
closure statutes for out-of-state PAC
contributions.

In all, TPJ’s complaints (the civil
complaint is filed with the Ethics
Commission) cite six apparent violations:

• accepting approximately $66,850 with-
out a designated campaign treasurer;

• not filing a sworn declaration of intent
to comply with expenditure limits;

• reimbursing himself for an estimated
$21,575.81 in campaign expenditures
without having officially indicated the
expenses were subject to reimburse-
ment;

• accepting $10,000 (twice the legal
limit) from one donor (Harold Simmons,
the energy tycoon who helped pay for
the “Swift Boat” attacks against John
Kerry and is now involved in similar
attacks on Barack Obama);

• accepting the KochPAC donation with-
out full disclosure; and,

• failing to provide “name, employer, or
job title” of 47 contributors.

As it happens, one inadequately
identified contributor was Williamson
Co. Commissioner Lisa Birkman, and the
WilCo connections raise additional ques-
tions about potentially improper influence
on a case heard by Law’s court. Austin
attorney Bill Aleshire, who is representing
Constable Gary Griffin in a lawsuit against
the county commissioners (which alleges
the Commissioners Court violated the Texas
Constitution by eviscerating Griffin’s 2005
budget in midyear), believes Law’s cam-
paign finance trail reflects an institutional
conflict of interest. Aleshire pointed out
that County Attorney Jana Duty, who repre-
sented the county in the lawsuit, and
Sheriff Janies Wilson, who testified
against Griffin, helped organize a Dec. 13
fundraiser for Law (see “Appeals Court
Rules Against WilCo Constable,” Dec. 21,
2007). The fundraiser was announced in a
letter signed by Duty and Wilson (among
others) and dated Nov. 28. That was the
same day Law, writing for a three-judge
panel, upheld a WilCo district court’s grant-
ing of summary judgment against Griffin
and in favor of the county.

To Griffin, the financial connections between
the Law campaign and county officials provide
evidence of apparently unethical conduct and
potential collusion. “They didn’t hold a Law
fundraiser on the steps of the courthouse,”
Griffin said last week. “They held a ‘Gotcha,
Gary Griffin Party.”' According to Texans for
Public Justice, on Dec. 10, Birkman also
made a personal contribution of $100 to
Law’s campaign, even though the case was
still live because Griffin had 30 days to file a
motion for a rehearing in Law’s court (he did
so on Dec. 11). Griffin commented, “If I’d
said, at any time, ‘Hey, let’s contribute to
Law’s campaign,’ Aleshire would have had my

head examined” - on the presumption that a
contribution would be seen as an attempt to
influence the court. Apparently, the county offi-
cials had no such misgivings.

On Sept. 17, the court withdrew its Nov. 28
ruling and replaced it with a new opinion,
drafted by Law, that reaffirmed the summary
judgment for the county and overruled
Griffin’s motion for a rehearing. In this deci-
sion, Law acknowledged that “each elected
county official has a delegated sphere of
authority that cannot be invaded” - the exact
basis of Griffin’s claim - but continued, “In
the case of a constable, however, that sphere
is fairly narrow.” The revised opinion reaf-
firmed WilCo’s claim that the Commissioners
Court may alter a constable’s budget, year-
round, “in the public interest.” Aleshire, who
said he will soon file a petition for review
with the Texas Supreme Court, strongly dis-
agrees: “If commissioners can chop an elect-
ed official’s budget midyear ... there is no
remaining ‘sphere of authority.’ The court’s
opinion creates a little group of five court-
house boss-hogs from whom no one is safe.”

Noting that Law’s second ruling occurred the
same day TPJ announced its complaints
against the judge, Griffin commented wryly,
“What goes around, comes around.”
Commissioner Birkman did not respond to
requests for comment. In an e-mail response,
Duty answered angrily, shrugging off the
apparent conflicts of interest as common-
place among lawyers. “Not that any of the
facts below will ACTUALLY be reported accu-
rately,” she wrote, “but ... I did not ‘plan’ a
fundraiser for Judge Law, I was simply asked
to be a sponsor, which means my name [was]
listed on the invitations as being on the host
committee (i.e., that I am a supporter of his).
Lawyers help judges raise money all the
time. How about you do some investiga-
tive reporting by taking a look at other
Judges’ financial supports and I guaran-
tee that you will find TONS of lawyers
(even lawyers who have pending cases)
on the judges’ contributors lists. It is
very common. I have no personal knowl-
edge about the allegations against
Judge Law, as this is not my case, it is
David Escamilla’s case.”

Law’s spokesman, Brian Roark, dis-
missed the TPJ allegations as “political-
ly motivated.” “Apparently, the allegation
that some contributions may have
exceeded the legal limit is based on
incorrect conclusions,” Roark wrote to
the Chronicle (apparently referring to
the contribution from Simmons), “result-
ing from the fact that a contribution
was listed twice on the same report,
even though there was only one contri-
bution. This is a clerical type of error
and not a legal violation. Innocent mis-
takes ... will be corrected if they have
occurred. ... Contrary to the insinua-
tions by political opponents, this politi-
cally motivated complaint does not
relate to public funds in any way.”

On Sept. 23, the Ethics Commission notified
Law that he must respond to the complaint
with any admissions, denials, and relevant
documentation within 10 business days.
Meanwhile, Travis Co. Assistant D.A. David
Escamilla announced he would be appointing a
special prosecutor in the case, to avoid any
appearance of partiality. (Escamilla is support-
ing Law’s Democratic opponent, Woodie Jones.)

TPJ Executive Director Craig McDonald
commented that while only Law may be held
legally accountable for fundraising impropri-
eties, the “deep, intertwined web of conflicts
of interest involved in the whole affair” is rep-
resentative of a larger problem, even echoing
Duty’s shrug that this kind of fundraising is
commonplace. “What happened in WilCo was
clearly unethical, with public officials raising
money for a judge who’s ruling on a case in
which they are involved, but, sadly, this hap-
pens day in and day out.” How elected judg-
es are placed in office must change, he
said, adding, “We need to get money out of
the courtroom.” - Patricia J. Ruland

For more information , visit www.tpj.org.

Pedaling Climate
Change Awareness

Jake Stewart was the only Texan among the
120 participants in last week’s Brita Climate
Ride, a 300-mile bike trip from New York City to
Washington, D.C., meant to raise money and
awareness for addressing climate change. Fittingly,
Stewart manages the city of Austin’s Climate
Protection Program. “It was a great event full of
energy that ended with all of the riders rolling into
the capital, urging the U.S. Congress to adopt
meaningful climate change legislation. Among
other lawmakers, Congressman Lloyd Doggett was
there to greet us and gave a barn-burning speech
to the group,” Stewart said. He recalled riding
through Amish country and Valley Forge and
camping out in George Washington’s barracks. “It
was a great recharge to gather with other commit-
ted folks from around the U.S. on this critical glob-
al issue,” he said. News of last week’s successful
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the nation’s
first carbon cap-and-trade auction encompassing
10 Northeastern states, tells us that “just because
the federal government isn’t moving doesn’t mean
we have to wait,” said Stewart. Citing 500 other
cities that have taken climate action, he said, “I’m
convinced that any real progress will come out of
the local model.” - Daniel Mottola

Houston Rail
Ranking Dispute

Does Houston really have the No. 2 rail transit
ridership in the U.S., as City Council Member
Brewster McCracken stated at a recent Rail 4
Real meeting? After several anti-rail readers wrote
to complain about that claim, we checked: Per
track mile, the answer is yes, at least according to
Wikipedia: Boston has the nation’s highest light
rail ridership per mile at 9,550 per mile per day.
Houston comes in second at 5,307 riders per mile
per day. (Wikipedia’s information for Houston is
based on a daily ridership of 39,800 on a starter
system of 7.5 miles; more recent ridership has
approached 45,000.) Meanwhile, Metro Magazine
ranks Houston’s ridership at No. 1, based on riders
per rail car. A Houston MetroRail spokesperson
said the system had 11.7 million boardings in
2007 and 5,333 boardings per track mile on
weekdays. The $324 million MetroRail starter line
opened in 2004. In June, Houston started building
a 30-mile light-rail expansion; the traffic-plagued
city is actively planning a $3 billion commuter-rail
system to serve five corridors. - Katherine Gregor

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INNOCENCE PROJECT SEEKS JUSTICE

If Lubbock court officials had paid any
attention to a letter they received in 1995,
Timothy Brian Cole might still be alive.
Instead, Cole died in 1999 from an asthma
attack while in prison for a rape that, it turns
out, he did not commit.

Now, on behalf of Cole’s family and the vic-
tim of the 1985 Lubbock rape, Michelle
Mallin, Innocence Project of Texas Chief
Counsel Jeff Blackburn is asking a Travis
Co. judge to order a court of inquiry to inves-
tigate the Cole case, to find out how and why
the justice system failed to find the person
actually responsible for Mallin’s rape. Indeed,
as it turns out, the actual rapist, Jerry
Johnson, came forward in 1995 (after the
statute of limitations had expired) to confess
that he was the rapist. He wrote a letter to
now Lubbock Co. Judge Jim Bob Darnell,
who in 1986 was the assistant D.A. who
prosecuted Cole. Darnell ignored the letter,
says Blackburn. At press time, Darnell had
not returned our request for comment.

It wasn’t until last year, when Johnson
wrote to the Lubbock Avalanche Journal and
then to Blackburn at the Innocence Project,
that an investigation into Johnson’s claim

began. Blackburn says that students work-
ing with the project discovered “serious
flaws” in the state’s case against Cole,
including serious problems with the eyewit-
ness identification procedures that prompt-
ed Mallin to finger Cole as her attacker.
(Eyewitness identification is a major culprit
in wrongful conviction. Of the men so far
exonerated by DNA in Texas, 82% were false-
ly fingered by an eyewitness.)

Johnson is currently serving two consecu-
tive life sentences for other rapes also com-
mitted in Lubbock in 1985. “In 1995, if any-
one had listened to Jerry Johnson, Tim Cole
would still be alive,” says Blackburn. Cole,

38, died in 1999 from an asthma attack
caused by dust while working in a prison cot-
ton field.

The Texas Constitution guarantees that
crime victims will be treated with “fairness
and with respect for the victim’s dignity” by
the judicial system, Blackburn argues, but for
Mallin and Cole that has not happened -
which is why he believes the courts should
open the case for review. “This is an extraor-
dinary case that demands an extraordinary
remedy. Because Mr. Cole is dead, he cannot

assert his innocence
through the normal pro-
cedures allowed by
law,” Blackburn wrote in
the petition filed in
Travis Co. last week.

“Ms. Mallin has a right
to a judicial determina-
tion of who the perpe-
trator was so she can
finally gain some clo-
sure to this matter. The
citizens of this state
have a right to have the
real perpetrator ...
brought to justice,” he
continued. “The citi-
zens of this state also
have a right to know
what went wrong in this
case and why.”

So far, however, that argument hasn’t
worked. Blackburn originally filed the petition
in Lubbock; it was denied without explanation.
He is now hoping that the Travis Co. bench
will grant his request. “In Texas, when a coun
ty won’t fix a problem, what do you do?” he
asked. “You go to the capital.”

Mueller Revisits Affordability and Density

In at least one respect, the master-planned
neighborhood at Mueller is a microcosm of
the city of Austin’s own larger struggle with
keeping the affordability factor in the local
housing stock.

Mueller’s development team, like Austin’s
City Council, is attempting to figure out how
to squeeze as much affordability - and range
of prices - into a single community as possi-
ble. And, like Austin, Mueller is looking at
ways to go denser and taller without disrupt-
ing surrounding homes. “One goal of Mueller
has always been to be a mixed-income com-
munity,” said Matt Whelan of Catellus, the
group overseeing the redevelopment of the
former city airport site, at a Sept. 18 update
on the implementation plan. “We’ve seen a
great demand for the housing in Mueller, so
we decided to go back and look at our hous-
ing types to see if we can make the housing

even more affordable, to provide what many
might call the work-force housing.”

Where single-family-home communities are
typically eight to 12 units per acre, these
new Mueller prototypes could be upward of
28 units per acre. The trick is to push up the
density without losing the compatibility with
existing local neighborhoods. Tentatively, the
new housing types could add another 800
units to Mueller’s planned 4,600 housing
units in this Central East Austin community.

Theoretically, that’s intended to push down
Mueller’s home prices, which right now run
roughly $250,000 for condominiums and
between $160,000 and $430,000 for homes.
It’s the belief of Mueller’s redevelopment advi-
sory committee that a wider range of housing
stock could attract even more buyers; buyers
are willing to exchange the large suburban lot
for top-end amenities and a close-in drive.

Mueller is a community built on a plan.
Certainly, it’s no utopia. Like any community,
it’s facing some of the day-to-day realities of
an Austin neighborhood. In the development’s
fairly new retail section, the Shoe Pavilion
store has gone into foreclosure. There’s been
some hand-wringing over the crowds of day
laborers expected to arrive in the parking lot
of the new Home Depot when it opens at
the end of October. And of course there’s the
rising cost of Austin housing, even as the
housing industry goes into free fall.

Four years into the Mueller plan - and with
250 houses on the ground and occupied and
another 150 under construction - Catellus
and consultant ROMA have returned to the
master blueprint once again to look at what
needs to be tweaked, especially when it
comes to housing stock prototypes.

The most obvious tweak would be ramping

After the Innocence Project
began its investigation into
Cole’s case and Johnson’s
confession, Lubbock Co.
District Attorney Matt
Powell initiated a parallel
investigation that ultimately
revealed that DNA from the
crime did not match Cole.
Still, the system must identi
fy what went wrong with the
investigation that ultimately
sent Cole to prison. Withoul
that, Cole’s family and Malli
are left without any real
answers, Blackburn said.
This case has “supreme
importance to every other
crime victim in the state”
and to the judicial system.

Granting the victim’s reques
for a court of inquiry would give the judiciary a
“chance to show that it can fix its own prob-
lems,” Blackburn said. “This case shows how
completely broken the judicial system is in
Texas. ... We don’t listen to people who are
innocent - and we don’t even listen when peo-
ple say they’re guilty.” - Jordan Smith

up the density in Mueller neighborhoods,
especially the neighborhood east of the town
center, which is intended to cater to the
younger, hipper set and empty nesters. Row
houses, yard houses, and the soon-to-be built
six-plex Mueller houses along the esplanades
could be joined by prototypes of other hous-
ing models, including what is being called a
“tuck under” row house with a parking court-
yard that can be used as open space.

Fortunately for planners, residents in the
Mueller-area neighborhoods are some of the
most receptive in the city when it comes to
density in the name of affordability. “The tra-
dition of Mueller is one of open-minded dis-
cussion,” said longtime ROMA consultant Jim
Adams. “People are not afraid of density.

They just want to ensure the quality of the
environment. We’ve heard some concerns
about traffic, but whatever we do will take the
existing traffic threshold into account.”

- Kimberly Reeves

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The Man in the

Larry Joe Doherty rides into the battle for CD 10

BY LEE NICHOLS

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

The strategy was supposed to solidify power
for Tom DeLay. It was supposed to create safe
seats for the GOP It was supposed to establish
a Republican congressional majority: a perma-
nent Republican majority

Now, here we are five years down the road
fro m Tom DeLay ’s infamous re-redistricting
of Texas. DeLay is gone from Congress, dis-
graced. Nationally, voters swept the Republican
“permanence” away in 2006. Even DeLay’s
seat is now held by a Democrat, one of the
very politicians whose career he tried to end.

And here in Austin, another of those sup-
posedly safe seats is under serious threat.

That’s the optimistic hope of Texas Demo-
crats, anyway. They want to win back the 10th
Congressional District of Texas. Just one elec-
tion cycle ago, such a goal was at best a pipe
dream. In a district drawn for the specific pur-
pose of electing a Republican, DeLay’s hand-
picked choice, incumbent Rep. Michael
McCaul, appeared settled into a lifetime seat
on Capitol Hill.

Now, into town comes riding a hero: a
champion in a white hat, with guns blazing
and saddle bags full of money. He’s ready to
run the outlaw out of town and dispense some
Texas justice. ...

It’s Judge Larry Joe.

Sorry about that. I briefly slipped into a
Western movie dream, with a touch of daytime
TV courtroom, as conceived by Democratic
chairmen Boyd Richie and Howard Dean.

Overwrought melodrama aside, however,
the race for Texas’ 10th appears to be more
than a fantasy. For the first time since DeLay
radically reshaped the district’s boundaries in
2003, two-term Rep. McCaul appears to have
a serious challenger who has Democrats excit-
ed. His name is Larry Joe Doherty. He’s not
actually a judge - although he played one on
TV - nor is he a gunslinger. But he is a boots-
wearing, Texas-drawling trial lawyer who has
the financial resources and apparent political
savvy missing from previous Democratic con-
tenders for this seat. He’s not in this race to
make a statement or be a martyr. He’s in it to
win it. And when you talk to him, it’s easy to
believe he just might.

Money and Staff

Doherty actually has a campaign office, in
a strip mall in Northwest Austin, with an
actual, paid staff. Inside, experienced cam-
paign professionals and consultants are pro-
ducing slick mailers, doing opposition
research, raising funds, conducting polls, and
doing the other work essential for a serious
congressional campaign. “Well, duh,” you
might say, but it’s a big step up from the pre-
vious two CD 10 Democratic challengers, Ted
Ankrum and Lorenzo Sadun, political novices

who fought their hearts out on shoestring
budgets with volunteers.

Those polls put confidence in Doherty’s
voice. “Our polling shows that 45 percent of
the people in the district say they’re
Republican,” Doherty says; “41 percent say
they’re Democrat. And 14 percent are ‘per-
suadables,’ or independent voters. But 69
percent of them, regardless of party affiliation,
say this country is heading in the wrong direc-
tion. And on those issues that we tested on,
the two polls track very closely - people want
to see a cleanup in Congress. That is a funda-
mental baseline.”

Another thing that puts some swagger in
any candidate is campaign cash. Doherty kick-
started his campaign last year with $100,000
from his own pocket, but since then, he’s
actually matched McCaul in donations
received. That doesn’t mean he’s in the clear
in the money battle - McCaul, the son-in-law
of Clear Channel Communications Board
Chairman Lowry Mays, is the llth-richest
member of Congress (fifth-riches t in the
House), worth $24 million, and can tap a

“Forty-five percent of the
people in the district say
they’re Republican. Forty-
one percent say they’re
Democrat. And 14 percent
are ‘persuadables,’ or
independent voters. But 69
percent of them, regardless
of party affiliation, say this
country is heading in the
wrong direction.”
- Larry Joe Doherty

huge cash reserve if he decides he needs it.
Indeed, just in the past year, Clear Channel
has been McCaul’s biggest single contributor,
giving $26,000. Still, the playing field is more
level than ever - Doherty’s legal and television
careers have brought him a smaller personal
fortune, somewhere between $4 million and
$8 million.

“I married for love, not for money,” Doherty
jokes. Asked how he’s managed to fundraise
so successfully, he says: “My diligent, daily
routine with a professional finance director
and a system that works is the difference
[from Ankrum and Sadun]. Because I’m not
sure that it’s substance. I would like to flatter
my own ego by saying, ‘Obviously, the candi-
date is the magnet that draws the money, and
I’m the better candidate,’ but I can’t really say
that. The system of fundraising that’s been

implemented by [finance director] Jim Cun-
ningham simply works. To me, that’s counter-
intuitive to a career that’s spent on being more
concerned about substance than form, but
here in fundraising, the disciplined approach
to calling, soliciting, and calling back; mailing;
pursuing the object diligently works.”

By now, good Austin liberals are yelling: “Fund-
raising? I don’t care about the money. Where
does Doherty stand on the issues?!?” We’ll get to
that - but first, let’s back up a minute.

How We Got Here

If you’ve moved to Austin recently - and
there are quite a few of you - you may need a
history lesson. Perhaps you don’t know the
sordid history of Texas’ 10th or the name
Michael McCaul, but if you follow politics at
all, you surely know the name Tom “the
Hammer” DeLay.

In 2003, the then-U.S. House Majority
Leader decided he was unhappy with the
fact that, despite being the solidly conserva-
tive state that produced George W Bush’s
presidency, Texas’ congressional delegation
leaned Democrat by a 17-15 count. He tack-
led this perceived inconsistency with a pow-

erful act of chutzpah: He strong-armed the
new Republican majority in the Texas
Legislature into executing an unprecedented
mid-decade redistricting. Ignoring two cen-
turies of American tradition dictating that
redrawing of political boundaries should
occur just once every decade, after each U.S.
census, he convinced his fellow Republicans
to scrap the maps approved only two years
earlier and personally prepared new ones
drawn to favor the GOP After a bitter politi-
cal and parliamentary battle that saw
Democrats twice flee the state to prevent a
quorum, the maps were finally approved,
and in 2004, Republicans took a 21-11 edge
in the delegation.

Austin and its Democratic Congressman
Lloyd Doggett were particular targets of DeLay.
At the time, District 10 comprised only the
bulk of Travis County, unifying almost all of
Austin under one representative. The seat had
a long history of institutional liberalism -
Doggett’s immediate predecessors in the seat
were no less than Lyndon Johnson, Homer
Thornberry, and Jake Pickle. DeLay wanted
Doggett and other white Democrats out of
Congress, and he carved the city up into three

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districts. One was a radically redrawn
District 10 that now stretches from West
Lake Hills through Northwest Austin
(including the exclusive, gated neighbor-
hood where McCaul lives) and Pflugerville,
all the way to the suburbs of Houston.
Doggett survived by moving to and win-
ning District 25, which now reached from
the Rio Grande Valley into Austin, but
District 10 turned hard GOP The 2004
Republican primary featured eight candi-
dates trying to out-right-wing one another
while on the Democratic side, no one both-
ered to file.

From the GOP stew emerged former
federal prosecutor McCaul, and he won
79% of the vote, crushing Libertarian
Robert Fritsche and write-in Democrat
Lorenzo Sadun. In 2006, Democrats actu-
ally got a candidate on the ballot, but
political amateur Ted Ankrum - with a
budget of only $65,000 - never really had
a chance. Even so, in a year that saw the
Republicans become the minority party in
Congress, Ankrum’s 40% of the vote - and
McCauFs relatively weak 55% - raised eye-
brows as, perhaps, a sign of things to come.
(Libertarian Michael Badnarik took 4.3%.)
As the Bush administration and the nation-
al GOP continued to lose popular support,
and DeLay exited Congress under indict-
ment for alleged violations of Texas cam-
paign finance laws, the stage was set for a
real challenge to McCaul.

Enter Doherty. He made his living and
fortune as a Houston trial lawyer specializ-
ing in legal malpractice - in short, he’s a
lawyer who sues other lawyers. He says he
became a pioneer in the field after feeling
guilty when he had to turn away a potential
client who he was certain had received
poor legal representation. When he asked
his employer at the time if the firm could
sue another lawyer, the request was reject-
ed because “we’ll get a bad reputation.”
After about a quarter-century in that field,
he decided he wasn’t going to save the
world one lawyer at a time and took a col-
orful career detour into television as “Judge
Larry Joe” on the Texas Justice series, a
Judge Wapner-style daytime courtroom
show. (For a more complete biography, see
“Capturing the Dragon,” Nov. 9, 2007.)

Doherty moved last year from his
Washington County ranch to Austin, know-
ing he’d have to get to know this end of the
district to win the Democratic nomination.
It paid off, as he handily defeated native
Austinite Dan Grant, also an impressive
candidate, in the primary. Now, he says his
professional campaign machinery is “on
track to peak on Nov. 4.”

A Clean House and Planet

Congressman McCaul has been, just as
Tom DeLay hoped, a firm GOP vote during
his almost four years in office. (After intial-
ly agreeing to an interview, a McCaul
spokesman said Tuesday the congressman

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Where Are the CD 10 votes?

Breakdown of the
2006 General Election

Regional votes
% of distinct vote
Winner, margin

Travis

74,352

42%

Ankrum, 56%

WHERE EACH CANDIDATE GOT HIS VOTES

McCaul (R)
Ankrum (D)
Badnarik (L)

28,576 (29%)
41,351 (58%)
4,425 (58%)

Past Results

2008 Primaries

Larry Joe Doherty (D)

51,977

61%

Dan Grant (D)

33,072

39%

Michael McCaul (R)
(unopposed)

44,214

100%

2006 General

Michael McCaul (R)

97,726

55%

Ted Ankrum (D)

71,415

40%

Michael Badnarik (L)

7,614

2004 General

Michael McCaul (R)

182,113

79%

Robert Fritsche (L)

35,569

15%

Lorenzo Sadun (D) W-l

13,961

Harris

65,514

37%

McCaul, 71%

46,595 (48%)
17,070 (24%)
1,849 (24%)

Rurals

36,889

21 %

McCaul, 61%

22,555 (23%)
12,994 (18%)
1,340 (18%)

BASl Kur

-60

Number equals
McCaul margin
in each county

HARRIS

+ 29,525

Breakdown of the 2006 General Election

Houston

% of Total

County

McCaul

l(R)

Ankrum

i(D)

Badnarik (L)

Votes

Travis

28,576

38%

41,351

56%

4,425

42%

Bastrop

2,318

47%

2,378

48%

280

Burleson

1,780

54%

1,406

43%

105

Lee

2,354

59%

1,523

38%

131

Waller

4,555

59%

2,941

38%

233

Austin

5,229

68%

2,252

29%

202

Washington

6,319

69%

2,494

27 %

389

Harris

46,595

71%

17,070

26%

1,849

37%

TOTAL

97,726

55%

71,415

40%

7,614

100%

The heaviest source of
votes in this district is Travis
County, although Harris and
the rural counties have
enough to dominate.

Almost half of McCaul’s
support came from Harris,
with the rest more or less split
between Travis and the rurals.
Democrat Ankrum, on the
other hand, was heavily
dependent on Travis, which
accounted for 58% of his sup-
port. (Interestingly, Libertarian
Badnarik’s support broke
along almost the exact same
county lines as Ankrum.)

If a Democratic candidate
chooses to focus his cam-
paign geographically, this
leaves two strategies: work
Harris and the rurals, or
mine Travis for more? Larry
Joe Doherty, confident of his
reputation in Houston and
the country, has chosen the
latter, hoping to knock down
McCaul’s percentage here.

declined to talk because the Chronicle had not
“treated [McCaul] fairly.”) In Congress, he’s
been a staunch supporter of the Bush admin-
istration and his party. Seeing little reason to
reach across the aisle from his heretofore safe
seat, he has, according to The Washington Post,
voted with a majority of his Republican col-
leagues 94% of the time, a figure that Doherty
loves to stress on the campaign trail.

McCaul has tried to project himself as a
friend of the environment, sponsoring bills
encouraging green practices in public schools
and promoting what he calls an “all of the
above approach” to energy, including support
for renewables. But he is held in low esteem
by environmentalist groups such as the League
of Conservation Voters, which grades his vot-
ing record, on 50 major votes, as only 8%
pro-environment. And Doherty emphasizes
another figure, the $107,000 in campaign
contributions McCaul has received from “Big
Oil” - citing campaign finance watchdog
Center for Responsive Politics’ (www.open
secrets.org) monitoring of McCaul’s contribu-
tions from the oil and gas industry (a total
since updated to $117,684).

Elsewhere, McCaul has a hard-line con-
servative record. He voted against expansion

of the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program; in favor of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (as did, unfortunately,
enough Democrats to carry it), which allows
warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens;
against the repeal of tax cuts to oil compa-
nies and for the extension of the Bush tax
cuts; against allowing the government to
negotiate with drug manufacturers for vol-
ume pricing on behalf of Medicare recipi-
ents; and against raising the minimum
wage. Having campaigned originally on his
credentials as a federal prosecutor, includ-
ing a stint as counterterrorism chief in the
Texas branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office,
he has steadfastly supported the invasion
and occupation of Iraq. And if that weren’t
enough, next month a McCaul fundraiser in
San Antonio will be headlined by none
other than Rush Limbaugh.

Among McCaul’s few breaks with the GOP:
Last year, insisting with a few House col-
leagues that there is a third way between par-
tisan extremes, he voted to implement the
remaining recommendations of the 9/11
Commission; and in 2005, he supported a
ban on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treat-
ment of detainees held by U.S. forces.

Overall, it’s a record that gives Doherty
plenty of rhetorical ammunition when speak-
ing to voters who may have soured on
Republican rule. “The current administration
is sustained ineptitude,” Doherty says.
“Michael McCaul is a career politician. He’s a
professional yes-man.”

Asked to list his congressional priorities,
Doherty responds without hesitation: “End
the war.” And he’s not afraid to criticize fellow
Democrats already in Congress for their failure
to do so in their year and a half in the major-
ity. “Stop the money,” he says. “We’ve got
enough money to bring [the troops] home.
Bring them home. ... In 2006, the public sent
the message: ‘End the war.’ You’re fixing to see
it again in 2008, because Congress didn’t get
the message straight and didn’t act on it
straight. The public is still not in favor of this
war. They want it ended. You may see some
incumbent Democrats pay the penalty for it. I
think Hillary has already paid the penalty. She
might not have been in second place had she
voted differently on the war in the first place.

“You don’t have to sell that message. The
public’s fed up with this war. They’re still fed
up with this war.” Even though the media has
focused on economic issues of late, Doherty

says: “I don’t really think the economic hem-
orrhage ever totally eclipses 4,000 deaths and
[30,000] to 40,000 maimed or hundreds of
thousands of dead Iraqis. We have to face the
fact, and Greenspan was the first to blow the
whistle on this; we’re in that war for oil. We’ve
killed children for oil.”

Austin Democrats, who trend deep blue,
shouldn’t worry that they’re settling for a con-
servative DINO (Dem in Name Only). Though
Doherty is a self-described “Second Amend-
ment Democrat” and has conceded some
ground to the Republicans’ “Drill Here, Drill
Now!” campaign (“We need drillin’ but not
spillin’,” he quips), he jokes that the only
“conservative” thing he’s ever done is to turn
his ranch into a wildlife conservation area. He
goes on to dismiss Republican arguments that
a rash of drilling would bring sudden price
relief at the pump and says he’s committed to
“reversing 200 years of using the earth to
develop our resources by focusing instead on
the prudent use of our resources to keep the
planet clean. We need to clean House, and
then clean the planet. The House being the
U.S. House.”

Doherty also supports single-payer, univer-
sal health care - something that other Texas

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Democrat Larry Joe Doherty (in cowboy hat) pitches his candidacy to union members at
this year's AFL-CIO Labor Day Fish Fry in Austin.

Democrats, notably U.S. Senate candidate
Rick Noriega, decline to do. Increasingly, he
sounds like an old-style Texas populist.
Responding to the recent and growing list of
finance industry bailouts, he wants to re-
regulate financial markets. “Re-regulation . . .
will put the economy back on track, with an
emphasis on fairness. Obviously, the free-
market economy that the Republicans have
foisted upon us is not working. The unregu-
lated capitalism that is the engine of that
enterprise is no more interested in democ-
racy than it is in any other form of govern-
ment. It’s only interested in greed: Winner
take all. The strongest survive. It’s in that
bundle of economic fairness that we’ve got
to re-establish the democratic principles,
because our country should operate better
than a Third World dictatorship.”

One of Doherty’s most radical proposals is
also tech-sawy: He says that any lobbyists
who wish to meet with him will have to do
so not hidden away in an exclusive D.C. club
but in front of a webcam. “Transparency!” he
exclaims. “That’s what we want, isn’t it?
Let’s quit talking about it and do it.”
Wouldn’t this basically guarantee that he
would never meet a lobbyist, ever? “I don’t
think that’s a necessary conclusion. It’s just
that if the lobbyist wants to lobby me,
they’re going to have to realize the people I
represent will have an equal opportunity to
see what they’re saying. They shouldn’t be
afraid to tell the truth. No one should be.
And if they’re [going] to come into my office
and lie to me, I don’t want them in my office.
That might be a great filtering device.”

winning the Barbell

Are Democratic hopes for CD 10 realis-
tic? After all, this is a district gerryman-
dered specifically to elect a Republican. But
then, so was DeLay’s own District 22 -
now held by Democrat Nick Lampson, one
of the Dem incumbents DeLay targeted to
begin with.

A look at the numbers raises almost as
many questions as answers. Since 2003, a
sea change has occurred that DeLay never
envisioned given the “permanent Republican
majority” rhetoric of the time. First, the
George W Bush regime has turned out to be
a full-blown political disaster - who would
have predicted, when war fever was at its
highest pitch, that five years later Bush’s
approval ratings would have sagged to under
30% nationally and even down to 41% here
in his home state? Or that the dispirited
Democrats would produce not one but two
presidential candidates capable of whipping
fervor for change into record turnout totals?
Or that Democrats - a party that doesn’t
hold a single statewide elected office in the
Lone Star State - would be within five seats
of retaking the Texas House?

All of these factors give Democrats reason
for optimism. Even the Democratic Con-
gressional Campaign Committee, which
wouldn’t have given it a passing mention two
years ago, added this seat to its “Emerging
Races” list, which might encourage some
Dems to send money Doherty’s way.

The standard Democratic line is this:
Despite CD 10 being specifically crafted to
keep him in Washington, McCaul attracted
only 55% of the vote in 2004 against Ted
Ankrum, who had no experience and even less
money. At least on the surface, the current
threat to McCaul is more formidable: Doherty,
a charismatic country boy bordering on a
Texas stereotype, in combination with political
savvy, personal wealth, and strong fundraising
ability. With public distaste for the Republicans
even higher than in 2006, voter registration
up, and the Obama candidacy driving more
voters to the D side of the ticket, the tide
would seem to be against the incumbent.

That’s one way to look at it. Here’s
another: Given that public sentiment had
swung solidly against the Republicans in
2006 - enough that they could be swept
from power in Congress - perhaps that
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Incumbent Republican
Rep. Michael McCaul (r)
talks fuel prices with a
motorist at a North MoPac
gas station.

55% is about as low as Dems can hope to
drag McCaul. And let’s be frank: No matter
the circumstances, any objective observer
would regard his 15% margin against Ankrum
as a butt-whipping.

History is a confusing guide. Texas Dems
make much of the fact that their 2008 primary
turnout was about double that of the GOP’s
-but that quietly ignores the fact that the
presidential race, the major driver of turnout,
was all but settled on the Republican side.
Comparisons of this year’s primary to
McCaul’s previous general elections also pro-
vide limited illumination: Doherty and Dan
Grant combined for 85,049 votes, a primary
total that looks good compared to McCaul’s
97,726 general election votes in 2006. But

then, 2006 was a nonpresidential year, when
turnout is lower. The 2004 numbers are
hardly more helpful: with no Democrat actu-
ally on the ballot, McCaul took 182,1 13 votes,
and Dem write-in Sadun placed third behind
the Libertarian candidate.

Where will the votes be in 2008? In popula-
tion terms, the district is often described as a
barbell: The bulk of the voters are at either
end. In 2006, Travis County produced 42% of
the votes (74,352 ballots), followed by Harris
at 37% (65,514). The other six counties split
the remaining 36,889. Ankrum won Travis
easily and barely took Bastrop; the rest went
to McCaul. One might assume that a Democrat
would take Travis for granted and focus his
energies on persuading Harris County and the

McCaul vs. Doherty Major contributors

TOP CONTRIBUTORS (2008 CYCLE)

Larry Joe Doherty

$11,200 Doherty, long & Wagner

9.200 Cervelle Homes

6.900 Protector Specialities

6.200 Service Employees Inti. Union

5.900 Mecom Management
5,350 Baker Botts IIP
5,100 Gallagher Law Firm

5,000 Communications Workers of

America

5,000 Inti. Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers

5,000 PI umbers/ Pipefitters Union
4,850 Situs Companies

4,600 BSLGolf

4,600 Hagans, Bobb & Burdine

4,600 Kmg-Bernuth Inc.

4,600 LMD Interests

4,600 Niko Nikos Greek Restaurant

4,600 Pannell Ker Forster of Texas

4,600 Pohl Bennett & Matthews

4,600 Richard Haynes & Assn.

4,600 Sloan, Bagley et al.

4,600 Steelhammer & Miller

4,600 Stern Miller & Higdon

4,600 Talisman Group

4,600 Tube Supply

Michael McCaul

$26,000 Clear Channel Comm.

16,100 Zachry Construction
11,000 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

11.000 Kirby Corp.

10,500 AT&T Inc.

10.000 Farm Credit Council

10,000 National Assn, of Realtors

10,000 Valero Energy

9,200 Capstar Partners

9.000 BAE Systems

8.500 Energy Future Holdings Corp.

8.000 American Society of

Anesthesiologists

7.900 Atlantic Trust

7.500 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
7,500 National Beer Wholesalers

Assn.

7.000 Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Corp.

6.900 Holmes Investments
6,750 Dell Inc.

6,272 Rely on Your Beliefs

6.000 American Bankers Assn.
6,000 Bracewell & Giuliani

McCaul’s Top Contributors,
Career

$131,250 Clear Channel Comm.
50,396 Dell Inc.

42,800 Zachry Construction

36.000 AT&T Inc.

30.000 National Assn, of Realtors

27.500 National Beer Wholesalers

Assn.

26.000 Loeffler, Tuggey et al.

25.500 Energy Future Holdings

Corp.

24.500 Deloitte & Touche
23,334 Enterprise Products Partners

22.500 National Auto Dealers Assn.

22.500 Valero Energy
21,999 National Assn, of

Broadcasters

20,900 Kirby Corp.

20,250 Goldman Sachs

20.000 Every Republican Is Crucial

PAC

17.500 Union Pacific Corp.

17.000 Winstead, Sechrest &

Minick

16,550 Baker Botts LLP

16.500 Fayez Sarofim & Co.

The Spoiler? Libertarian Matt Finkel

The third candidate in the race for CD 10 is 29-year-old Libertarian
Matt Finkel, a finish-trim carpenter living in North Austin. It’s not
Finkel’s first foray into electoral politics - he previously ran for Travis
Co. justice of the peace, Precinct 2, against Republican Barbara
Bembry. With no Democrat in the race, Finkel captured 34% of the vote
and actually won three precincts and tied another.

Asked why he’s running, Finkel said: “Mostly to have an effect on poli-
tics. I believe the only way for people to make a statement to politicians
and to the media that we want smaller government and lower taxes is to
vote Libertarian.” As for Michael McCaul, the incumbent he’d like to
unseat, “I’m not happy with his support of the war, with him being the
big-government Republican.” And of Democrat Larry Joe Doherty: “I never met the man, nothing
personal against him, but his ideas for solutions as far as I can tell are for more government
programs and higher taxes, and that’s not good for Texas District 10 or our country.”

GOP officials have called Libertarian candidates in some close races, trying to dissuade
them from running, based on the theory that Libertarians tend to pull more votes away from
GOP politicians than Democrats. Finkel, Travis County’s representative on the Texas State
Libertarian Executive Committee, said he hasn’t received such a call but that the calls “make
me happy, because it lets me know they’re a little bit scared and being held to account for
what they’ve done, and that we’re growing, and that they know we’re a real force.”

Libertarian Michael Badnariktook 4.3% of the vote in 2006; if Finkel can match or top that,
and this race is as close as Democrats expect, it could be a fatal margin for McCaul. - LA/.

rural areas to turn blue. Doherty says he’s
doing exactly the opposite.

“The Democrat planet in this district is
centered in Austin,” Doherty says. “I would be
concerned that taking Austin for granted
would be a good way to lose the election. We
are going to do well with the organization in
the rural counties, but they only make up 20
percent of the overall population. . . . There’s
been no cake sale, no charity auction, no fire-
man’s fundraising benefit too small for ‘Judge
Larry Joe’ in the last seven years to volunteer
to emcee.” (As if to confirm that dedication -
or obsession - Doherty has even turned up on
Austin cable access TV as a guest on The
Trailer Park Show.) “Consequently, I’ve estab-
lished a relationship in the rural communities

TOP CONTRIBUTORS BY SECTOR

Listed in order of total contributions for the 2007-
2008 cycle. Note that Larry Joe Doherty got more
than 11% of his money from lawyers and lobbyists;
Michael McCaul easily overtakes that lead with
sizable donations from every business category.

Larry Joe

Michael

Doherty

McCaul

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$426,515

$97,350

Fin a nee/ Insur./ Real Estate

16,900

176,183

Communications/Electronics

2,800

93,111

Misc. Businesses

11,900

73,075

Ideology/Single-lssue

6,400

74,567

Energy/Natural Resource

6,250

74,084

Construction

10,200

55,150

Transportation

50,300

Agribusiness

12,300

33,400

Labor

29,200

4,000

Defense

29,750

Health

2,000

26,800

Other

26,650

66,150

Total

$551,115

$853,920

that transcends my coming to Austin,” he con-
tinues. “My hardest work has been introduc-
ing myself to Democrats in Austin, because
part of Tom DeLay’s scheme was to make it
easy for Austin to control who would be the
candidate. And if they go for the homegrown
tomato, they lose the rest of the barbell and
the handle.

“Bear in mind, I’ve lived in Harris County,
until I moved to Washington County, for nearly
50 years. My television show was the first
nationally syndicated show ever produced in
Houston. I don’t need to introduce myself to the
people of Harris County like I needed to intro-
duce myself to the voters in Travis County.”

Perhaps he’s right. McCaul’s 2006 support
here in Travis was not insubstantial. The dis-
trict includes Pflugerville, West Austin, and
West Lake Hills, areas where some precincts
lean heavily Republican, and 29% of McCaul’s
total votes came from our supposedly solid-
blue county. Perhaps there are votes to be
mined here from disaffected Republicans and
independents.

One possible advantage for Doherty is the
“Obama effect” - although the Illinois senator
has little hope of actually winning Texas, the
wave of new voters he’s expected to bring out
(especially in urban counties such as Harris
and Travis) could lift Doherty’s boat. But
Doherty says he won’t be relying on that. “An
Obama tsunami is not needed to win this elec-
tion. I have not tailored my campaign to need
the coattails of a presidential success. And
logically, politically, constitutionally, you
shouldn’t. This is an independent seat.”

Larry Joe Doherty gives the impression that
he’s left nothing to chance and that he’s
planned his campaign down to the last detail
and the last precinct. Nonetheless, out of
courtesy, I wish him luck as we end our inter-
view. “If the Republicans just keep doing
what they’re doing,” he grins, “we won’t need
any luck.” ■

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ouse of Torment’s yearlong scare tactics pay off in seasonal s creams -

PHOTOS BY TODD V. WOLFSON

BY RICHARD WHI1X

tion, location: That’s a particular challenge for
a business that, between starting construction
and shuttering the doors after Halloween,
may only be there four months. “That’s where
a lot of people who want to move into the
haunted house industry fail,” McCullough
says, “because you’re not going to get many
people who want to rent prime real estate for a
short-term lease.” It took him eight months to
find the first house, and in 2004, he took the
next big step - taking out a year-round lease
at the current site in the old laser tag building
at Highland Mall.

Having that permanent base changes the
year for Team Torment, giving them more
time to design and build a world-class haunt.
Combined with this year’s decision to make
the build Team Torment’s full-time job, their
artistic and technical vision took flight on a
scale that had never been possible previously.
“Last November we said, ‘Let’s do the event
we’ve always wanted to do,”’ says Love.
The result is bigger, more elaborate, and
more complicated than anything they ever
attempted before, from running water to
overhead zip lines. It also made business
sense: With the extra time, the team could
design and build everything themselves,
rather than depend on contractors. Love
explains, “It’s interesting to see what you
can do in four or eight weeks, and then
when you’re given 50 weeks, how much you
can exceed your own expectations.”

The result is more than people in masks
leaping out of cabinets (“I don’t want to
hear someone say something generic like
‘Welcome to hell,”’ Mike Garcia warns audi-
tioning actors). It’s really two attractions:
Illusion Manner, with its twisted fun-house
CONTINUED ON P.40

For 46 weeks a year, it’s a nondescript con-
crete box in the Highland Mall parking lot. For
the six weeks leading up to Halloween, the
House of Torment is a gore-drenched charnel
house, an apocalyptic hellscape draped with
shattered corpses and patrolled by twisted
creatures that has become a must-see for
horror fans and scare seekers. Every year, the
local business sets new standards in artistry
and technical complexity, and the national
Halloween industry is paying attention.

The four chambers of its blackened, beat-
ing heart are the four permanent members
of Team Torment. Founder, chief mechanic,
and all-around head of the household Dan
McCullough welds and solders the brute
machinery that makes the haunt wail and
lunge at customers. Jon Love, the business
manager, runs the front of the house while bal-
ancing the budget. Then there are the brothers
Garcia: Mike, the operations manager, wran-
gles the actors and runs the behind-the-scenes
crew, while Matt - often to be found sur-
rounded by piles of sketches or latex-covered
creations - is the artistic director who designs
the props and costumes, down to each groove
on each fang of each lurking beast. “It’s like
having an all-star team,” explains Matt.

After massive success during Halloween
2007, the team took the dramatic step of sink-
ing everything into the project, quitting their
day jobs, and taking the entire year to work
on the house. Even before opening for 2008,
there was a good omen: The house was named
the nation’s sixth best professional haunt by
Halloween industry bible Hauntworld. “Every
year they do a national ranking list, and every
year we look at it and think, ‘Wow, it would
be nice to be recognized,”’ says McCullough.

“This was our first year to be nominated, and
to be up there at number six, above some
of the best haunted houses we’d ever seen,
really makes us proud of what we’ve done
here.” Not bad for something that started in
McCullough’s yard 13 years ago.

“As a kid growing up in Austin,” he explains,
“Halloween was a big event. I liked going
’round and seeing yard setups, a werewolf
in a cage in a garage - anything that gives a
little show for trick- or- treaters.” That first year,
about 30 people turned
up. After a few years, the
hundreds of visitors he
attracted were tearing
up his lawn. So in 2002,
armed with a $10,000 loan
and what McCullough calls
“a bunch of brother-in-law
deals,” the house went pro-
fessional. “We didn’t have
much of a clue what we
were doing, but we knew
that we had the determi-
nation to get it done,” he
says. Now, on a good night,
anywhere between 2,000
and 4,000 customers visit
the house.

Under all the prosthetic scars and
movie-level effects, it’s a business. In
fact, Halloween is an industry, and
sometimes it’s cutthroat (that’s why
some staff must sign nondisclosure
agreements - to protect proprietary
designs from rivals). In revenue terms,
it’s the No. 2 holiday, behind only
Christmas, with trade shows, conferenc-
es, and a cadre of prop and costume com-

panies. The International Association of
Haunted Attractions, the haunted house
industry’s trade body, expects national spend-
ing to top $5 billion. It’s a complex business
model, which is where Jon Love - a graduate
of the University of Texas’ McCombs School
of Business - comes into his own. Love
did his student corporate finance intern-
ship under McCullough (his first sales job
- explaining to his professors that the house
is a real business). After graduating and briefly
enduring a soul-crushing
corporate job, which he
calls his real house of
torment, he returned to
manage the house, where
10 months of building
and design pay off in six
weeks of tickets sales. Part
of his job is ramping the
house up to speed from
the development stages
to opened doors, hiring
additional production and
sales staff, enforcing the
drug-testing policy, deal-
ing with permitting issues,
buying merchandise, and
setting up marketing and
promotional deals. “It’s
a logistical process,” he
says. “We’ll have more
people working here
than ever before: 100
on a busy night.”

Like all business
owners, McCullough
learned the cardinal
rule is location, loca-

“I don’t want to
hear someone say
something generic
like ‘Welcome to
hell.’”

- Operations
Manager Mike Garcia

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theme, and Contagium - an interactive
horror experience inspired, Matt Garcia
admits, by a mix of getting tired of see-
ing New York destroyed in movies and
the Austin-based conspiracy theories of
Alex Jones. Initially, Matt found his own
idea daunting. “I procrastinate, because
I like to wait until other
horror ideas inspire me,” he
explains. “With the idea of
an apocalyptic city, it cre-
ated limitations, because
you can only do buildings
and stores and city streets,
so there were no graveyards
or spook houses. But it reas-
sured me that this was something that no
one else had done.”

Every night is a different challenge.
Repairs are constant, actors may drop
out under the strain of a six-hour shift
of scaring, and then there’s the biggest
problem - flow. Getting people through a

haunted house smoothly is a complicat-
ed balance, maximizing their experience
while maximizing the number of people
through the door in any one night. Night-
vision cameras throughout the building
mean props are activated from a hidden
control room at just the right second for

maximum effect. But the footage also
allows the team to see choke points where
people get stuck, allowing them to finesse
the flow. The same applies for the people
waiting to get in. “We know there’s a line
outside,” says McCullough, “but we don’t
ever have to experience that.” He got

some insight into his customers’ pain on
a visit to Las Vegas. “We stood in the cue
for a buffet for two hours. It was grueling.
The food was great, but it was overshad-
owed by having to wait that long.” That
insight lead to this year’s biggest innova-
tion: not some new monster but timed
tickets, sold online, “just like
when you’d go to the mov-
ies,” McCullough explains.

But after a year of living
in the House of Torment,
how does the team still know
what’s scary? “To me, things
that are scary are things that
are unknown and that we
don’t understand,” Matt explains. “As
long as we keep reinventing and reimagin-
ing what horror is, it keeps it fresh.” ■

Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 3-12, and every day
from Oct. 16 to Nov. 2, 7pm-12mid. 523 Highland
Mall Blvd., across from Macy’s. Single attraction, $15;
combo pass, $20. www.thehouseoftorment.com.

Want more war stories from the House of Torment front lines? Check
out our v ^ eo interviews with the haunt’s primary creeps and other back-
stage bloodletting at austinchronicle.com/webextra.

Plan your death-related holidays with our updated Halloween and Dia de los
Muertos listings online at austinchronicle.com/halloween. Keep your eyes and grapes
peeled for our complete guide to spooky parties and frightening events in future issues.

The Creepy Neighbors

Mansion of Terror

The five-year veteran haunt enters its second year at its
Round Rock site, with another schizophrenic approach to
two haunts in one attraction. Blood Frenzy unleashes psycho
killers in an industrial environment and promises that the
visitors’ choices decide who lives or dies - graphic stuff, for
those 13 and older. For those suffering from coulrophobia
(having a traumatizing fear of clowns), second attraction
Slaughter Circus builds on the carnival theme of 2007’s
Asylum of Darkness. Friday -Sunday, Oct 3-11; Thursday-
Sunday, Oct. 16-26; all Halloween week through Nov. 2.
7pm-12mid. Sky Ridge Plaza, Round Rock. Single ticket,

$15; combo pass, $19.50. www.mansionofterror.com.

The Horror

The new creation in the scare business goes all out in its
first year with zombie-riddled the Horror as well as the hor-
ror-therapy of Dementia Haunted Asylum. Thursday-Sunday,
Oct. 2-26; all Halloween week through Nov. 2. 7pm-12mid.
Lakeline Village Shopping Center, Ridgeline Boulevard,
Cedar Park. For ages 12 and older. Single ticket, $13;
combo passes, $18-35. www.thehorrorhauntedhouse.com.

Tales From the Nauseous Fairy

More spooky than gruesome, Austin’s own puppetry compa-
ny Geppetto Dreams presents a brand-new 30-minute interac-
tive Halloween experience, where goblins and fairies roam free.
Plus, it’s a kiddie-friendly PG show, with special G-rated perfor-
mances on Sundays. Oct. 2-31: Thursday-Saturday, 6-9:15pm;
Sundays, 2-3pm. Adults, $12; under 10, $10. Geppetto
Dreams Theatre, 501 Pedernales. www.geppettodreams.com.

Gruesome Gardens

Garden center by day, gory gardens by night. Back after a
refreshingly grisly and imaginative first year, the Great
Outdoors plays with the idea of who - or what - is buried in
the flower beds. It’s not just moles clawing their way out from
under the soil. Friday-Sunday, Oct. 10-26; and Halloween
week through Oct. 31. Dusk to midnight. $12. The Great
Outdoors, 2730 S. Congress, www.gruesomegardens.com.

Cabin of Fear

If you weren’t terrified of summer camp before,

Williamson County YMCA adds masked psychopaths into the
mix. Special “lights-on” viewings for the youngest and most
faint of heart nightly from 6 to 7pm. Oct. 3-Nov. 1: Friday
and Saturday, 7-llpm. Thursday, Oct. 23 & 30, 7-10pm.
Camp Twin Lakes, 204 E. Little Elm Trail, Cedar Park. $8.
www.hauntaustin.com.

Scare for a Cure

The World of Horrorcraft is a video-game themed and
interactive scare fest founded by Jarrett Crippen (aka the
Sci Fi Channel’s the Defuser) with the proceeds going to
breast cancer research. Oct. 24-26 & 29-31, 7:30-llpm.
Elk's Lodge, 700 Dawson. $20 ($15, students); Halloween
night: $25 ($20, students), www.scareforacure.org.

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CHADDICK DANCE THEATER Heart meets body

Imagine spending a quarter of a century
with your heart in one place and your body
in another. So it was for Cheryl Chaddick,
whose heart was always in Austin despite
the fact that her body was having a very
successful run in San Francisco. As artistic
director of Company Chaddick, the modern
dance company which she founded in
1985, she choreographed 22 successful
seasons. Her work
garnered praise from
the city’s major publi-
cations. She was a
celebrated teacher in
the vibrant dance
community. Trouble
was, in Chaddick’s words, “I always felt like
I was fighting to get back here.” Chaddick
grew up in Texas. “There’s a certain loyalty
to Texas. You can’t seem to get it out of
your system. While I was in San Francisco,

I must have said every year that I was mov-
ing back to Texas. [My company] thought it
was a running joke after a while.”

Ultimately, a tragic circumstance was the
catalyst that turned the running joke into a

reality. Her mother had a bad accident, and
Chaddick wanted to be by her side. After
25 years of contemplation, Chaddick finally
moved back to the place she describes as
home. “Austin is my favorite place in the
United States. It’s like God is here. I swear
there’s something different.”

Chaddick’s long-awaited dreams are
coming together. Her new company,
Chaddick Dance
Theater, will have its
premiere performance
in October. Second
Wind will comprise five
pieces. One will be
performed by guest
artist Kathy Dunn Hamrick. The other four
will be performed by Chaddick and her new
dancers, some of whom she found in the
classes that she is teaching at Cafe Dance
and Ballet Austin. “I like a company that
reflects society. I don’t want a certain body
type. All of us are in different decades of
our lives.” Second Wind will blend pure
dance and dance theatre. One piece was
inspired by Chaddick’s transition from San

Francisco to Austin, the experience of let-
ting everything go and then “trying to live
with your decision.” Another piece deals
with the sexual and aesthetic pressures
applied to women at younger and younger
ages. Another piece is a staging of an erot-
ic fiction-fantasy novel which Chaddick
describes as being “very pirate-y.” Another
piece celebrates the female body.

Chaddick’s work looks to speak to peo-
ple outside of the modern dance communi-
ty. “I want everything I do to be as clear,
as truthful, as accessible and real as I can
make it for other people who aren’t in my
world. That’s hard with modern dance.
When you say modern dance, how many
people go, ‘Oh I’ve been to tons of them!”'

It is a testament to Chaddick’s passion
that despite all her successes and acco-
lades, she is still determined to focus on
the work. And Austin doesn’t have to worry
about her leaving anytime soon. She is here
to stay. “I hope I can be a sound company
here. Something that is part of the Austin
community. I would love to be here and die
here doing dance.” - Hannah Kenah

Chaddick Dance Theater presents
Second Wind Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 2-4,
8pm, at AustinVentures StudioTheater,
501 W. Third. For more information, call
474-8497 or visit www.companychaddick.org.

2008 B* I DEN PAYNE AWARDS Nominees enter stage right

Not sure if Bevo was a
member of this year’s B.

Iden Payne committee, but
the nominations for the
2008 Payne Awards
announced on Sept. 18
bear something of a burnt-
orange hue. The University
of Texas Department of
Theatre & Dance received 23
nominations for the Austin
Circle of Theaters’ annual dramatic awards - by far the most for any
producing organization this year - with three productions scoring five
or more nominations each. A new staging of Maria Irene Fornes’ semi-
nal feminist drama Fefu and Her Friends was honored with eight
noms, for production of a drama; Leslie Swackhamer’s direction; per-
formances by Jenny Keto, Kim Adams, and Tiffany Knight; and designs
by Sarah Davidson (set), Katy Hallee (lighting), and Susan Branch
(costumes). The other shows were, significantly, written by playwrights
studying at UT: the eloquent historical work Elephant's Graveyard, by
George Brant (five nominations, including original script and produc-
tion of a drama), and the brightly imaginative dark fable Ashes, Ashes,
by Eve Tulbert (six noms, including production of a play for youth, cos-
tume design for Sarah Mosher, and set design for Lisa Laratta).

Also taking top honors in the nominations: Tongue and Groove
Theatre’s The Red Balloon with eight (including production of a play for
youth, David Yeakle’s direction, Justin Sherburn’s musical direction
and original score, and Jennifer Sherburn’s choreography), Second
Youth Family Theatre’s Wiley and the Hairy Man with seven (among
them production of a play for youth and the set design and direction
by Andrea S. Smith), Zilker Theatre Productions’ Disney's Beauty and
the Beast with seven (with nods for production of a musical, Scott
Schroeder’s direction, Judy Thompson-Price’s choreography, and
Michael McKelvey’s musical direction), and Mary Moody Northen
Theatre’s Full Circle with seven (including musical production; David

Long’s direction; acting by Jill Blackwood, Greg Holt, and Helyn Rain
Messenger; and McKelvey’s musical direction). The second most hon-
ored company was City Theatre, which received 15 nominations for
seven productions staged during what is only its second season.

Overall, 59 productions mounted from September 2007 to August
2008 received nominations, which are made by a committee of volun-
teers who regularly see productions throughout the year. The awards are
determined by a vote of the ACoT membership, which receives ballots
that are tabulated by the accounting firm of KPMG LLP and held in secret
until the ceremony. This year, that will be held Sunday, Oct. 26, 7pm, in
the Rollins Studio Theatre of the Long Center for the Performing Arts. In
addition to the presentation of the regular awards, the ceremony will
include presentation of the Special Recognition Award, given annually by
the ACoT board to an individual who has made exceptional contributions
to Austin theatre, to lighting designer Jason Amato. The public is wel-
come. For more information, call 474-8497 orvisitwww.acotonline.org. For
a full list nominees, see this piece at austinchronicle.com. - Robert Faires

CONSPIRARE

Be there when they sing for TV

The Conspirare juggernaut rolls on. After racking up two Grammy
nominations, being the only U.S. choir to sing at the latest World
Choral Symposium, and breaking into the Billboard Top 10 list for
classical CDs, what realm is next for our exceptional vocal ensem-
ble to conquer? Why, television, of course. Craig Hella Johnson
and his company of voices are set to tape a one-hour concert that
will air nationally on PBS in March 2009, and the public is invited
to sit in. But to see the concert - which takes place Sunday, Oct.

12, 7pm, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - you need a
free ticket. They will be distributed two per person on a first-come,
first-served basis on Tuesday, Oct. 7, noon, at KLRU-TV, 2504-B
Whitis. For more information, visit www.klru.org. - R.F.

LORA
REYNOLDS
GALLERY

Don’t mind the mess;
we just moved in

As of this weekend, Lora Reynolds
Gallery has a new address: 360 Nueces
Ste. C. It’s just a few blocks east of the gal-
lery’s home of four years, but what a dif-
ference those blocks make. They put the
cutting-edge contemporary art dealer on
the ground floor of the skyscraping 360
Condominiums, across the street from
Ballet Austin’s new Downtown digs and next
door to the recently reinvented Austin Music
Hall. New York-based Stonefox Design has
given the 1,800 square feet of exhibition
space a sleek look with poplar, etched
glass, and blackened steel elements. But
the first exhibition may suggest that con-
struction is still underway. Susan Collis will
be showing new works that wryly mimic
the tools and residue of the building busi-
ness. Just look carefully at those screw
heads and studs protruding from the wall:
They might be made of onyx or gold. And the
water stains on that end table? Meticulously
inlaid mother-of-pearl. A clever way to com-
ment on a new home for smart art. - R.F

“Susan Collis: Why Did I Think This Was a Good
Idea” will be on display Oct. 4-Nov. 15 at Lora Reynolds
Gallery ; 360 Nueces Ste. C. For more information, call
215-4965 or visit www.lorareynolds.com.

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Theatre people have a saying: There’s the
show you rehearse, then there’s the show
you perform. Meaning, the folks putting on
a play can learn a lot about it while they’re
putting it together, but they never really
know what kind of show they have until the
audience shows up. That’s when the artists
learn which jokes are really funny, which
moments are truly moving, which characters
are credible, which relationships genuine.
It’s the response of the public that teaches
you what you’ve made.

The staff and supporters of the Long Center
for the Performing Arts spent 16 years working
out what kind of cultural facility they wanted
for Austin, carefully crafting it through the
design and construction and programming of
the space. But until the center opened to the
public in March, those people couldn’t know

if the facility they had “rehearsed” was the
facility they would be running.

They’ve been getting a good sense of that
over these past six months. While the learning
curve for a new facility like the Long Center
is properly measured over several seasons,
the first six months have provided some valu-
able lessons for the center’s keepers, lessons
that have already led to changes in the way
the Long Center operates. While many have
been positive - certainly, the money spent
on acoustics and the creation of the grand
terrace with its expansive view of Downtown
have paid off - but as often happens in life,
it’s the painful experiences from which the
Long Center staff have been learning the most.
Executive Director Cliff Redd and Director of
Marketing and Development Jack Bunning
discussed some of them with the Chronicle.

Parking Perils

“The first 30 days of operations had things
neither Jack nor I nor the most important sooth-
sayer you could name could have foreseen,” Redd
notes. “We learned a lot about the public’s reac-
tions to things beyond our control, like parking.”

No kidding. The business of motor-vehicle
storage for the Long Center was a source
of contentious debate during its construction
(neighborhood groups fought for a smaller
garage than center supporters wanted), but
that turned out to be a tea party compared
to the firestorm ignited by a massive traffic
jam on April 20, when thousands converged
on the area for Austin Lyric Opera’s Carmen
and Austin Community College and ProArts
Collective’s Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil at
the Long Center, the Gem and Jewelry Show
at Palmer Events Center, and the Austin Reggae
Festival at Auditorium Shores. The swarm of
cars, far more than the 2,500 that the parking
in the Long Center garage and lots in the area
could accommodate, left Riverside Drive from
South First to 1-35 in gridlock for hours.

While staff for the Long Center and the city
had anticipated some crowds and traffic snags
after the new facility opened, the enormity
of this tie-up shocked everyone. “We didn’t
know it could happen like that,” says Redd.

As a result, however, “all the rules changed that
day,” he says. “Credit to the city, being responsive
with an interim parking plan, and Jason Maurer,
who books Auditorium Shores. We all talked.
Now we have a completely different relationship.
Every event, large and small, at the Long Center
has a parking plan. Jason doesn’t book an event
on Auditorium Shores without talking to us first.
What do we have? Can we do it? What would the
parking plan have to look like?”

The traffic mess cast a dark cloud over the
center just three weeks after its grand open-
ing, though Redd sees a silver lining in the
response of his staff: “I’m so glad I made the
investment in customer-service training mod-
els that I did, because in those moments that
are really dark, in terms of handling a public
that is very unhappy, you have to know you
have an A-plus team that’s giving all the right
answers, all the right responses, and making
it right as fast as they possibly can. And that’s
pretty much what people experienced.”

Unfortunately, the magnitude of the mess
left many people skittish about a repeat or,
worse, fearful that parking at the Long Center
would be a chronic problem. Jack Bunning
reports that for weeks after the jam, calls to
the box office routinely included the question,
“Can I park?” “The weeks that followed were
about earning back the public trust,” says
Redd. And though the center has since seen
numerous sold-out events in Dell Hall - ALO’s
The Bat , Video Games Live, Kathy Griffin, Lyle
Lovett, the Verdi Requiem with Conspirare,
Yo-Yo Ma with the Austin Symphony - and had
no parking issues, he admits, “It’s still very
much on the lips of the people of Austin.”

“We thought we would have a honeymoon,
and this derailed that,” Redd adds. “But you
know, we got it over with. So I don’t live in fear
that it might happen and what would happen

if it did. It happened, and it’s over, and we got
to learn. Painfully, but we got to learn.”

Living With the City

Friday, July 25: The front page of the Austin
American-Statesman announces “Long Center
seeking $2 million in Austin help for upkeep.”
The story by reporter Tony Plohetski reports on
an e-mail from Cliff Redd to City Manager Marc
Ott in which the Long Center director suggests
that the facility’s costs for utilities, maintenance,
security, traffic control, and services such as lawn
care and landscaping be shared with the city.
The $2 million corresponded to a deficit in the
Long Center’s annual budget. The article ignited
a public outcry in the paper’s online comments
section and letters to the editor in which critics
railed at the center for being a boondoggle and
elitist and called for shutting it down.

Redd says he was blindsided by the reac-
tion. “I learned what it feels like to be tried
outside the courtroom before you ever see
the judge or hire a lawyer,” he says. “I was
just asking the question that a good executive
director should ask, which is: What are the
partnerships that we can evolve for our city
that can be cost-saving for us and mutually
beneficial? That was the question. That’s all
the question ever was. It still is. And I’m going
to keep asking it.

“I see us paying the top rate for our utilities
when we could be paying a lot less. This is [the
city’s] building. Why not help us? Why not
pay the [utility] rate that City Hall is paying?
Is there a good reason we’re not doing that?
Does it really make sense for the security per-
son to drive around the Palmer Events Center
and stop at some imaginary line as opposed to
driving another 10 feet and being our security
person, too? Does that make sense to you as a
taxpayer? Does it make sense to be spending
money from a donor paying for that service? I
want the money to go on stage. I want it to be
spent on a play here. I want that money to go
into the arts community. Two percent of our
population are employed in the arts. I want
them to have secure work here.

“We’re learning what it means to develop
what was a completely undeveloped or under-
developed relationship with the city govern-
ment. I talk about living in the Long Center
like it’s your dream home, but the driveway
and the garage are your neighbors’. And to
get in and out of your dream house every day,
you have to navigate with your neighbor. And
they have 12 cars. And they don’t go to work
when you do. Was it sobering? Sure. But out of
that was forged the beginnings of a workable
relationship with the city.”

The Programming Challenge

Obviously, you build a center for the per-
forming arts to have performances in, but no
one really knew whether Austinites would
come to the Long Center to see them. The good
news for Austin Lyric Opera, Ballet Austin, and
the Austin Symphony - the founding resident
companies of the Long Center - has been that

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LEARNING CURVE CONTINUED FROM P.44

their performances in their new home have fre-
quently sold out. Other local companies such
as Conspirare have done equally well in the
2,400-seat Dell Hall, and a number of the local
arts groups that have performed in the 200-
seat Rollins Studio Theatre - the Rude Mechs,
Teatro Vivo, and Austin Shakespeare, to name
a few - have sold out shows there, too.

The events that the center has programmed
itself under the Long Center Presents banner
have not always fared as well. For every Kathy
Griffin, Lyle Lovett, or Video Games Live that
sold out, there has been a Kathleen Battle or
3 Redneck Tenors that filled only half or three-
quarters of Dell Hall. Under different circum-
stances, Long Center staff might have been
able to discern which underperforming shows
just weren’t popular, but fallout from the
parking issue has made it hard to determine
whether people stayed away because they
didn’t like the show or were anxious about
parking. Probably a mixture, thinks Bunning.

In some instances, scheduling played a role
in the low turnout, Redd believes. The concert
by opera diva Kathleen Battle was on a Monday.
“Had it been on a Saturday,” he suggests, “we
would have had a line around the door.” But that
isn’t always possible with Long Center Presents,
since the center gives local companies top prior-
ity in scheduling dates. “We step completely out
of the way, because that is our promise,” Redd
says. “The best dates we methodically give away.
That’s not a complaint. That’s why we built the

center.” But it does leave Long Center Presents
with what Redd calls “this weird jigsaw puzzle”:
“You’ve got a Tuesday night in the season, and
you have to find something that somebody will
come to on a Tuesday night that you can make
money at, or you don’t want to do it. As we
learn, we’ll get smarter at that.”

“The strategy is we’re working much further
out,” says Bunning. “We’re starting to look at
’09-’10, ’10-’ll, ’ 1 1-’ 12 already.”

That comment prompts
Redd to add: “If I could
have seen everything the
way it worked out, I would
have started programming
the first year the day the
foundation cracked on
the old Palmer. We would
have had the run time to
lay in an opening season.

But we didn’t know that.

Two years ago, we weren’t
sure we were going to start the blasted thing.”

The Broadway Conundrum

“Dell Hall is wonderful for the symphony,
opera, and ballet, but it loves the theatre,”
says Redd. “Every time we put something the-
atrical in it, I’m reminded how much it loves
it. So, of course, I want to feed that.”

But bringing Broadway to Dell Hall requires
that precious commodity, time. Most touring
productions need at least a full week of the

schedule, and “a week is really precious here,”
Redd notes. They can juggle a few dates on the
schedule to get something really important.
“Unfortunately, we can’t pull a week out of the
schedule so a Broadway show can sit down.
What is defining us is the calendar.”

And carving out a week for a theatrical pro-
duction doesn’t mean it will sell, as the center
learned with The Drowsy Chaperone. The tour-
ing version of the acclaimed Broadway musical
had been scheduled
for the Long Center
in August, but weeks
before its arrival, the
center canceled the
booking. Redd was a
fan of the show and
still is - “catchy plot,
great music, I think
it’s going to be a sen-
sation when it hits
the region” - but he
learned that the tour wasn’t an easy sell across
the country. The places where it had the most
success were theatres with large season sub-
scription bases that booked it for two weeks. “It
tended to be a little fragile on single-ticket sales,”
Redd explains, “but on a two-week run, the sea-
son people came to see it, and they’d go, ‘I had
the best time,’ and the next week, single-ticket
sales went way up. I didn’t have any more than
one week. We don’t have season tickets. I didn’t
want them to be sitting in a nearly empty house.

I didn’t want Austin to be the spot that the tour
company made that was a bummer. So we did
what was heretical” and canceled. It taught Redd
that the Austin audience for musical theatre is
still evolving and that the center has to pay even
more attention to the road shows it books.

That doesn’t necessarily bode well for Redd’s
desire to feed Dell Hall’s love for theatre, but
the Long Center director is nothing if not tena-
cious, not to mention adept at finding ways
to get things done in less than ideal circum-
stances. That’s how he got the Long Center
finished and open to begin with. And he’s
recently acquired a valuable ally in his mission,
someone with a deep background in theatre
and programming performing-arts events for
Austin audiences. That would be Paul Beutel,
who spent 18 years at the Paramount Theatre,
much of it as its executive director. His pres-
ence as the center moves into its second six
months gives the facility someone skilled at
building on the kinds of lessons being learned
about the Long Center’s operations.

“What worked? What’s broken? I think
we’re going to be able to tell you that more in
about a year,” Redd says. In the meantime, he
will be enjoying his favorite lesson of the Long
Center’s first six months: If you build it, they
will come - all of them. “You’d be amazed at
who you see [walk through here] in a week.
It’s not who you think. The most delicious,
diverse cross section of humans. It’s really, truly
Austin. We get to meet Austin every day. ■

Redd says that in the
Long Center’s first 30
days of operations,
“We learned a lot about
the public’s reactions
to things beyond our
control, like parking.”

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BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

FASHIONING TYLER I have a nephew.
Actually, I have several nephews, but the
oldest of them has just turned 20 and has
come to live with me. Yikes. For all the
times I’ve wanted a 20-year-old, believe me,
this was not what I had in mind. But Tyler,
my nephew, came to me a few weeks ago,
right before he turned 20, and asked if I’d
help him with his looks. Hell, yes, I’d help
him with his looks. I hated the tired, ratty,
skater-boy look, with its oversized ragged
clothes, puffy shoes, and unattractively long
hair. Nothing unusual here - there are
hordes of teenagers out there who look like
this. I’m just not related to any of them.

And Tyler isn’t a teenager anymore, as he
himself has pointed out. Well, fine. Then
let’s stop looking like one, shall we? First,
we were off to Pink Salon for a properly styl-
ish haircut. Tyler hit it off with the hairdress-
er and walked out of there with a shiny new
head of hair, long enough to style but short
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ly, I deeply admired this 6-foot-4-inch
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myself as looking like a stereotypical
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flitting about, pausing momentarily with his
hands on his hips to study the hair before
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metal combs and a spray bottle while mur-
muring to himself, “Yes, that’s it,” and “OK,
here we go.” Inevitably, when left to his own
devices, Tyler tended to apply too much
product at first, and the results were disap-
pointing. But isn’t that exactly how a person
learns to use a product? Then we hit the
stores, stocking up on well-fitted jeans,
slacks, and shorts; T-shirts, button-downs,
and vests. I showed him how to essentially
select a uniform of tops and bottoms that
were easy to throw together and left very lit-
tle room for error, while working perfectly for
him for most occasions. Basing the choices
on black, red, and white, with an occasional
splash of another color, Tyler has adopted a
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part rockabilly, though it’s been a challenge
to get him to understand that cowboy boots
are a reasonable choice for virtually any
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shoes, socks, underwear, and accessories.
The underwear part was tricky, but I knew it
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ready for dinner with his Auntie M (yes, my
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■

BOOKS

An Angel-:

Detective novelist Michael
Connelly trolls L.A.’s seedy
underbelly again in
‘The Brass Verdicts "

Michael Connelly was still working the crime
beat for the Los Angeles Times when he began
writing his series of crime novels, set in con-
temporary L.A. and starring a LAPD homicide
detective named Harry Bosch. The Black Echo ,
released in 1992, won the Edgar Award and
sent notice that the bar had been raised on the
venerable genre of L. A. -based police procedur-
als. Leaving such great fodder as the Rodney
King riots and other sensational grist behind,
Connelly was soon able to quit his day job.
Ironically, the relationships with lawmen that
he forged as a reporter only became stronger.
After publishing 18 crime novels, he’s not only
a regular with mainstream readers but with
LAPD personnel, members of the most famous
and infamous police department in the world.

His new novel, The Brass Verdict, will be
published Oct. 14. Pull disclosure: I have
known Michael since 1991, he has blurbed
some of my books, and I consider him a
friend. But the Chronicle doesn’t pay its writ-
ers enough for me to write about his work if I
didn’t think it was exceptional.

Austin Chronicle: The Brass Verdict has two
of your protagonists, Bosch and Mickey Haller,
the defense attorney and narrator of The Lincoln
Lawyer (2005), meeting and interacting. What
inspired that approach?

Michael Connelly: It is Haller’s book, and
Bosch is more of a supporting character. But
where they are both on the page together is
where the book was most fun and fulfilling
to write. Anytime [Bosch] is on the page, we
see him through Mickey’s eyes. So that was a
new take on him, and anytime after 13 books
about the guy that I can get in a new take,
then I want to do that. Because it keeps me
interested, and it keeps him alive.

AC: It was interesting to see Bosch from Haller’s
point of view. He comes off like a jerk sometimes.
MC: Yeah, you’re right. I made him a jerk
like that on purpose, and that to me was the
refreshing part of the book. In all of the Bosch
books, we ride inside with him. We know
what he is thinking and what hurts him and
heals him; all the while he has this tough
exterior. But what if you didn’t know what he
was thinking? You’d only be left with that hard
edge. Harry is a man on a mission, and that
is to root out this sort of evil. To do it, he has
endeavored to make himself bulletproof so no
one and nothing can get to him. That has left
him with this hard exterior, and I think that is
on full display in this book without any of the
mitigating interior thought you get with the
other books.

AC: Another strong vibe is the powerful mutual
dislike of defense attorneys and cops.

MC: Yeah, I hope it comes through because it
is truly there. There are always exceptions, but
in general, defense attorneys and cops are not
throwing their arms around one another at the
end of the day. [Cops and defense attorneys]
are sort of natural-bom enemies. To get this
sense into the book, I have spent a lot of time
with both defense attorneys and cops. And
sometimes I have arranged to be with both
sides at once, and those are usually fairly tense
times. A lot of sniping back and forth, a lot of
negative stories about the other side. Usually
these sessions are very fruitful for me.

AC: As Haller says in the intro, everybody lies.
Call me naive, but being a criminal lawyer seems
like a pretty rotten job.

MC: Without defenders of the accused, what
kind of society do we have? Would we want
a society where the accused simply disappear
into jails and prisons? I don’t think so. We
need these people, and so I believe there is a
rightful honor bestowed on the profession.

I don’t think the lawyers who help me operate
under any illusions. They know that 99 percent
of the time, their clients are guilty of something.
... I don’t know a single defense attorney - and
I know a lot of them - who has trouble sleeping
at night or feels they have sold their soul, and
that’s the way it should be. Now that is the real-
ity, and I write fiction. So in The Brass Verdict,
we have Mickey Haller going through a crisis of
conscience. Physical and emotional trauma in
his life has brought him to the point of question-
ing what he does and whether he can still do it.
AC: I ve always admired your use of big meta-
phors. Here, the biggest one is the flip side of the
coin thing with Haller and Bosch; they even live
on opposite sides of the Hollywood Hills, with
opposing views of Los Angeles, which is great.
MC: I knew back when I wrote The Lincoln
Lawyer that it would be likely that I would bring
Haller and Bosch together down the road. I
actually placed Haller in a house I used to live
in on Lareholm Drive. My thinking was that they
would have two views of the same place, because
they have different views and experiences of the
same justice system. Maybe that wasn’t so subtle
of a metaphor, but it made the process of writing
the book a litde more clear. So it works for me,
and maybe it will for the reader.

AC: One of my other favorites is in the novel
Angels Llight.

MC: To me, Angels Flight is a detective story,
but it’s really a story about Bosch coming to
grips with his marriage not working and com-
ing to an end. The little incline railroad called
Angels Llight, which goes up the side of Bunker
Hill in downtown L. A. , is two counterbalanced
train cars that pass each other while one goes

up and one goes down. I thought that was very
symbolic of two people coming to the end of a
relationship. They pass by each other.

AC: What music have you been listening to lately?
MC: One is the jazz bassist Ron Carter’s latest
Japanese import. The other thing is the latest
CD from Ry Cooder called I, Flathead. At the
time his Chavez Ravine CD was released, I was
writing a book called Echo Park, and it had
storylines that crossed over Chavez Ravine -
both the real place and the Cooder recording.
So I had Harry Bosch listening to the CD, and
I wanted to quote lyrics from it in my book.
AC: Tell me about your favorites, Frank Morgan
and Ron Carter. I was just thinking about Ron
Carter when you mentioned him in the book.

MC: I also take inspiration from the stories
behind the music. Lrank Morgan had to struggle
to make his sound. He fought addiction and
spent years and years in prison. But somehow he
survived to make a difference. One of the most
fulfilling things I ever did was take part in a joint
lecture with him at the Berklee College of Music
in Boston. He played his saxophone, and we
spoke to students about the creative correlation
between music and writing. It was immensely
satisfying and wonderful to spend a couple
of days with him. He was a good storyteller.
Unfortunately, he passed away in December. The
Brass Verdict is dedicated to him.

AC: What’s your next book?

MC: I pulled the reporter Jack McEvoy, from
The Poet, off the shelf and am currently writing
a book about him and his last days as a jour-
nalist. He gets downsized by the L.A. Times,
and it’s about the last story he writes. The
working title is The Scarecrow.

AC: The Brass Verdict really zips along. Did you
ratchet up the speed because that’s what people
expect in a legal thriller?

MC: 1 wasn’t conscious about any particular
legal- thriller style, but I am always conscious
of velocity. Momentum - gotta have it. I really
wanted it to build momentum outside of the
courtroom, [so] I tried to place as little of
the stories as possible in actual courtroom
settings. I thought it was safer that way since
I was not a lawyer and these books would
undoubtedly be compared to all the legal
thrillers written by lawyers who have actually
done the real work.

AC: Will Bosch ever have to come to Austin to
solve a murder? If so, he would surely have to
go to a club and see a band or two. Who would
he go see?

MC: I think the only thing that could draw Bosch
to Austin would be a reunion of the Skunks. ■

Jesse Sublett is an Austin-based author, freelance writer,
and, coincidentally, bassist and singer for the Skunks.

Remembering James Crumley

Chronicle contributor Dan Oko pays
tribute on our Books blog, austinchron
icle.com/underthecovers, to legendary
mystery writer and native Texan James
Crumley, who passed away last week-
end in Missoula, Mont.

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DOWNTOWN OWL: A NOVEL

by Chuck Klosterman
Scribner, 275 pp., $24

In an interview with the Chronicle
two years ago (see “Truth and
Inconsequences,” Sept. 22, 2006), Chuck
Klosterman revealed his next book would
be a piece of fiction, stating, “I often
use my life as a literary device, and the
problem with that is as my life changes,
what I want to write about has to change.”
Klosterman’s best known as a critic with
a healthy number of pop-culture-obsessed
books and magazine columns under his
belt. He’s a tireless fan of lists and para-
graph-long footnotes, though he can usual-
ly navigate a witty detour via obscure fac-
toids to keep you from noticing. That style
of narration is the main obstacle in his
first novel, set in the sleepy North Dakota
town of Owl over the span of 1983 to ’84:
It’s hard to tell how much is fiction and
how much might be Klosterman’s life. His
first book, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal
Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, detailed his
metal upbringing
in the gray sub-
urbs of his home
state, and Owl’s
three main char-
acters reside in
a similar cultural
vacuum. Julia’s
a frazzled young
teacher relocated
from Minneapolis;

Horace is a retired
farmer and wid-
ower; Mitch is
your average apa-
thetic high school
football player
with torture fan-
tasies about his
coach. And Owl
is a place where
“everyone knows
everyone.” Instead
of really fleshing out
these characters, Klosterman, perhaps
out of habit, drops musical and cultural
references throughout the book and folds
in even more bizarre characters, such
as the nicknamed drunkards at the local
bar (“Bull Calf,” “Little Stevie Horse ’n’
Phone”) and the lecherous football coach,
John Laidlaw. He does try to connect the
characters’ dots, with varying degrees of
success, and every once in a while, he
pulls out a nice whip of a sentence that
sort of nails them: “His stomach started
to feel strange. It felt the way stomachs
feel when your wife dies, or when you
reach your hand back to get your wallet
and realize it is no longer there.” When
they are all brought together in the final,
sudden, symbolic force of nature, we’re
still no closer to knowing or really car-
ing about them, because ultimately, it’s
Klosterman’s voice driving them along the
surface, and it never really goes deeper
than that. - Audra Schroeder

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Urban Roots Restaurant Roulette

THE ENDLESS SEARCH

Searching for great wines under $10 feels
like Indiana Jones searching for the Ark of the
Covenant. No, there are no boulders or
snakes, but the ratio of good to mediocre wine
would make the batting average of most Major
League Baseball pitchers look pretty strong.
But, I’ve just found two that fit the bill.

Sebeka Cabernet Pinotage
is from South Africa’s West
Cape. The Pinotage grape is a
cross between Pinot Noir and
Cinsault that tastes like neither.

It has a pungent and sweet
aroma that blends nicely with
the Cabernet’s more traditional
flavors. Sebeka’s winemakers
are aiming their wines at people
who normally like wines from
California and Australia. It’s an
easy drinking wine for an aperi-
tif, but it will also go very nicely
with grilled pork or lamb chops,
especially for just $7.

Pietra Santa Winery is 25
miles straight east of
California’s Monterey Bay, a dry
area with hot days and cool
nights ideal for growing lots of
ripe grapes. Its main collection
of wines runs about $20, but it
has succeeded in beating the
$10 boundary by 50 cents with
Sacred Stone Master’s Red
Blend (more holy-search met-
aphors). This red wine is a
blend of grapes from all over
California. They don’t list
them, but I would guess it has
Zinfandel and Sangiovese with
maybe some Ruby Cabernet and a few others.
Happily, the wine has good acidity, making it
perfect for hamburgers or Italian food. By the
way, pay no attention to the groaner of a back
label (“Behold our Master’s blend - It makes
every meal magical!”). It’s what’s in the bottle
that counts.

The Sebeka Cabernet Pinotage is available
at the Randalls on Bee Caves Road, and you
can get both the Sebeka and Sacred Stone at
Spec’s on Airport. - Wes Marshall

Emerald City Press doesn’t just have
what it takes to be one of Austin’s top cof-
fee shops; it’s also the unique purveyor of
two items sure to uplift any downhearted
soul: espresso soft-serve and fresh flow-
ers. Located near the corner of Ninth and
Lamar, Emerald City opened in March after
stylishly repurposing an ungainly former
photo-lab building into a sleek walk-up and
drive-through cafe.

Animated owner Emily Fleming-Nash, a

native of the nearby Clarksville neighbor-
hood and veteran of local caffeine institu-
tions Austin Java and Jo’s,
said she wanted to open a
place that was walkable
and bikeable from the
neighborhood. Pending
some zoning hurdles, she
plans to add a seating
area out back along Shoal Creek.

On the hot afternoon I first dropped by,
the espresso-drenched, low-fat, organic
soft-serve was probably the most satisfy-
ing pick-me-up to be had legally. Beverage
highlights include Katz organic coffee and
espresso, agave lemonade, an assortment
of teas (hot and iced), and 12-hour cold-
brewed iced toddy coffee. The food menu
reads like a tour of Austin’s local culinary
delights: Tacodeli breakfast tacos,
Boomerang’s veggie pies, pastries from
Upper Crust Bakery, Lone Star Kolaches,
Ken’s Donuts and spicy samosas, and sand-

EMERALD CITY PRESS

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www.emeraldcitypress.com
Monday-Friday, 7am-7pm;
Saturday-Sunday, 8am-5pm

wiches from Sweetish Hill Bakery. Gluten-
free sweets from local dipDunk Cookies are
also around, as are sinful snacks such as
Mary Louise Butters Brownies.

Not to be outdone by other environmen-
tally progressive coffee dealers, Emerald
City offers only compostable, corn-based
disposable cups and cutlery, explained
barista Johnny Walker. In addition, it
donates all its coffee grounds to a nearby
school’s veggie garden and diverts most of
its refuse from the trash at an on-site recy-
cling center. Emerald City even offers a
discount to operators of
fuel-efficient autos at the
drive-through.

On one afternoon visit,
customer Steve Sides -
who presented a nearly
filled frequent customer
punch card - told me he returned for the
always fun staff, quality morning coffee,
and, of course, the espresso soft-serve.
Sides’ son Grant was thoroughly enjoying a
soft-serve slathered with chocolate syrup. I
got crunchy coconut flakes on mine.

Also notable is Emerald City’s expan-
sive selection of magazines and newspa-
pers from Austin and worldwide. Where
else can you snag a copy of Dr. Andrew
Weil’s Self Healing; get jazzed on a
healthy, coffee-laden desert; and walk
away with a bunch of flowers with which
to woo your lover? - Daniel Mottola

Event Menu Oct. 4-8

> The annual Oktoberfest celebration at North by Northwest Restaurant & Brew-
ery (10010 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 467-6969) will benefit Breast Cancer
Resource Centers of Texas (www.bcrc.org), Central Texas Dachshund Rescue
(www.ctdr.org), and Therapy Pet Pals of Texas (www.therapypetpals.org). Enjoy
German food, plenty of craft-brewed beer, live music, artist booths, a bratwurst-eat-
ing contest ($10 entry fee), a dog costume contest, and plenty of activities for
kids. $2 admission. Get a complete schedule at www.nxnwbrew.com. Saturday, Oct.

4, ll:30am-10pm; Sunday, Oct. 5, ll:30am-6pm.

> The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium (815 W. 47th, 454-7468) invites beer lov-
ers to its first Fall Brew Festival at the Triangle Park. Look for five beer tents in
the park stocked with craft brews specially chosen for the occasion by Flying
Saucer beer guru Keith Schlabs. There will be German food for sale, as well as
live music and a disc-golf tournament. Admission is free. A $15 ticket entitles
guests to a commemorative glass and a punch card for sampling 10 of the fea-
tured beers. More info at www.beerknurd.com. Saturday, Oct. 4, noon-lOpm.

The Austin chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International

invites you to its annual scholarship benefit, Eat, Drink,
Experience! - an evening of fabulous food and wine on the
campus of the Texas Culinary Academy (11400 Burnet Rd.).
The evening will include a silent auction, as well as a cooking
class. Tickets are $75, available online at www.ldeiaustin.org.
Saturday, Oct. 4, 7pm.

> Are you interested in creating a food-manufacturing business in
Austin but have no idea how to get started? Here’s a seminar
designed with you in mind. A representative of PeopleFund
(www.peoplefund.org) and the owners of the Kitchen Space
(1204 Cedar, www.thekitchenspace.com) will present basic informa-
tion and answer questions. $25; please RSVP online.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 6:30-9pm.

- V.B.W.

food-o-file

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Our recent feature on local dining landmarks
generated some responses that made me real-
ize I had not clearly delineated all of our param-
eters. For the landmark list itself, we included
Austin restaurants or artisan food companies
that had been in business for 50 years or more
as of the date of the article, Sept. 12. As a
result of our research, we also ended up with a
long list of eateries and a few artisan-food
companies that had been in business for 25 to
49 years, and we used a few more criteria to
limit inclusion in that list: no regional or nation-
al fast-food chains, only chains founded in
Austin (so yes to Schlotzsky’s, Thundercloud
Subs, the County Line Bar-B-Q, Delaware
Sub Shop, and Texadelphia, but no to
Golden Chick, Bill Miller Bai^B-Q, and
Burger House); no restaurants that were
closed as of the date of the issue, which
excluded the revered Las Manitas; and no res-
taurants/bakeries/artisan-food companies from
surrounding towns such as San Marcos, Round
Rock, Pflugerville, etc., with the exception of
the Salt Lick and a couple of places in the
Lake Travis area, which in our minds is part of
Austin - sort of an arbitrary “our game, our
rules” explanation, I realize. The best I can tell
at this point, here are the places we missed,
with our sincere apologies.

1972: Anderson’s Coffee Company
1973: El Galindo Tortillas,

Rosie’s Tamale House
1979: Sandy’s Hamburger Hut (Lakeway)
1980: White Mountain Foods,

Wally’s Burger Express
1981: Red River Cafe

If we’ve still managed to miss something,
please let us know... Austin beer lovers will
be pleased to note that the owners of the
Ginger Man (304 W. Fourth, 473-8801) have
found a place to relocate Downtown. They
expect to be in residence at 301 Lavaca by
January 2009... The Maldonado family of Hill-
Berts Burgers (1503 W. 35th, 452-3287;
5340 Cameron Rd., 371-3717) fame closed
their original burger outlet on Lamar last
Sunday after 36 years in the same location.
The family patriarch announced they’ll be con-
verting an abandoned fast-food outlet at
7211 Burnet Rd. into the newest Hill-Berts.
Meanwhile, you can still get their signature
hand-battered onion rings and thick shakes
every day at their other two outlets... Homesick
El Paso natives e-mailed to say they were dis-
appointed that Chuco’s/lOth Street Tacos
didn’t make it here, but we do know that a
new taco joint called the Screaming Goat
(900 W. 10th, 477-4628) has taken over the
little creek-side cottage... Award-winning local
mixologist Bill Norris has returned from the
international bartending competition he attend-
ed in New Zealand in September - drop into
FINO (2905 San Gabriel, 474-2905), and ask
him to fix you a Wisdom of the Ages - the drink
that earned him and his teammates second
place in the competition. Check out my Food
blog at austinchronicle.com/ontherange for the rec-
ipe and photos... October in Austin is every-
body’s favorite month for outdoor events, and
the coming week really illustrates that. If you
don’t find something fun to do outdoors this
weekend, you are just not trying hard enough!

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Urban Roots

Good food, good work, good citizens

BY KATE THORNBERRY

Urban Roots is a local nonprofit that com-
bines sustainable agriculture with youth devel-
opment, and it works. Not just for the teenag-
ers involved but for the entire Austin commu-
nity. This afterschool program addresses real
problems of food insecurity and parity and
deftly forges new solutions by combining
energy, idealism, and elbow grease.

Access to fresh, high-quality, organic pro-
duce is scarce in our poorer neighborhoods
and nonexistent for the truly needy: the
elderly, the homebound, and the homeless.
Childhood obesity has risen as fewer families
have time for home-cooked meals, and to
make things worse, most Americans have a
serious disconnect regarding where their food
comes from and how much nutrition it actu-
ally contains. As parents struggle to work
increasingly long hours for paychecks with less
buying power, our communities have become
fractured as well: Very few have time or energy
to get to know, let alone help, their neighbors.
And every year, a new crop of high school
graduates is dumped on the job market lack-
ing many of the life skills necessary to thrive.

The Urban Roots program tackles this
whole range of issues in a seamless and syner-
gistic way. In a nutshell, local teens from all
over Austin work an acre of land as an after-
school job, acquiring life-changing skills in
cooperation, commitment, entrepreneurship,
public speaking, self-confidence, and nutrition.

A full 40% of what they grow is donated to
local relief organizations, providing high-qual-
ity, vitamin-rich food to populations who des-
perately need it, as well as introducing the
young people to the rewards of community
service. The remaining 60% of what they grow
is sold by the teens at area farmers’ markets,
providing local, affordable, organic produce to
the city at large. And the money made on sales
goes to pay the teenagers a fair hourly wage for
their hard work, and in the process, the kids
learn about handling money, customer service,
and small business.

Most important of all, these kids get to
make a dramatic and positive impact on prob-
lems of access and nutrition that more than a
few adults have given up on as “unsolvable” and
“just the way it is.” To feel that you have the
power to address big problems in meaningful
ways, especially at that age, is transformative.

The Urban Roots program is the brainchild
of Max Elliot and Mike Evans. Evans came to
Austin four years ago with a degree in African-
American studies and a boatload of experience
working with urban youth, primarily with
Boston’s renowned Food Project (www.thefood
project.org), which he ran for five years. Elliot
hails from Shreveport, La., and his resume
contains most of the farming know-how, espe-
cially concerning farming in our blisteringly
hot (and largely arid) climate. The two met
while Evans was doing some volunteer work at
a local organic farm, and their mutual interest
in both sustainable agriculture and social
work drew them together.

“Some people have a choice and can buy
the fresh, organic produce,” says Evans. “But
many don’t have that choice for various rea-
sons: low income, lots of kids, or lack of
access. You are cut out of that healthy, nutri-
tious food, or else you have to make a very
tough decision, like not having a phone versus
buying food that is better for your family.
That’s a crazy decision to have to make.”

The two men discussed solutions to this
and other challenges and kept in touch. Two
or three years later, Elliot was hired by local
umbrella organization Youthlaunch to oversee
Webb Middle School’s gardening program.
Elliot felt that the program didn’t allow the
students enough investment in the outcome
of their efforts, so he invited Evans to brain-
storm with him. Elliot thought that
Youthlaunch might be convinced to sponsor a
program similar to the Food Project, where
working with urban teens could be combined
with teaching sustainable-farming practices.
For months the two men hashed out their

ideas, and they came up with the Urban Roots
concept. Eventually, Youthlaunch hired Evans
on as a temporary advisor, and the nonprofit
project was given the green light.

Evans and Elliot were able to lease an acre
of good farmland from Hands of the Earth, a
farm close to Eastside Memorial High School
at the Johnston Campus. They began accept-
ing applications from teenagers all over Austin
for the afterschool and weekend jobs Urban
Roots was offering and got about 50 applica-
tions for the 15 positions.

“I wish we could have hired
all of them,” rues Evans.
“But we hadn’t even had a
harvest yet, and we couldn’t
overcommit ourselves.”
Because Urban Roots is a
bona fide job, the program
can serve a more diverse
group of kids. “The fact that
we pay people, it levels the
playing field,” explains
Evans. “Kids who need to
spend their time at a paying
job aren’t pushed out. Some
kids come for one reason
and some for other reasons,
but over time, their goals
become similar.”

The first day of work was a Saturday in
February, when Elliot, Evans, and the crew of
teens broke ground for planting. Christopher
Matthews, a sophomore at LBJ, reminisces: “I
will never forget that first day! It was freezing
and raining ... I knew we were going to get
dirty, but man! We had, like, piles of mud stuck
to our feet!” No one had rain gear, so the kids
wore black garbage bags as ponchos. When
asked if that first day gave him second thoughts,
the soft-spoken linebacker looks confused. “No
. . . not at all,” he smiles. “Actually, it was fun!”

Along with learning to work together to get
all the tomato seedlings planted, all the spin-
ach harvested, and other specific, time-sensi-
tive goals, the Urban Roots kids attend work-
shops aimed at education and personal
growth. Because Urban Roots is usually a
teen’s first job, there’s a workshop on money
management, as well as a necessary workshop
on insect management. Taking time to sit in
silence and solitude, to connect with the
forces and cycles of nature, is the focus of one
lesson; to connect with the meaning and
rhythms of music is the focus of another.

Public speaking has turned out to be an
essential workshop, as many of the Urban
Roots kids have been called on to appear on
television or speak at gatherings about the
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• 15-passenger van

• Cargo van (for transporting produce and
farmers’ market equipment)

• Toolshed

• Certified produce scale that will weigh up to
100 pounds

• Wooden garden carts (3)

• Compost (75 yards)

• Digital video camera

• 25 outdoor folding chairs

• Biggest and most fervent wish: a lease on
3-plus acres of arable land in Central Austin
with an affordable, reliable water source on
which to farm next year

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program. “I used to be the shyest, quietest
person in the class,” says Veronica Garcia, a
sophomore at LBJ. “But now I speak up all the
time. Urban Roots helped me to calm down
and be more comfortable around people.
Used to be I would never raise my hand, even
if I had the answer. After being on TV speaking
up in class ... no problem!”

During the six-month pilot phase of the
program, the 15 Urban Roots kids grew a
whopping 18,000 pounds of organic produce
- on 1 acre. All in all, they raised beans, beets,
cabbage, carrots, collard greens, cucumbers,
eggplant, basil, cilan-
tro, melons, lettuce,
okra, onions (bulb and
bunching), black-eyed
peas, sweet peppers,
hot peppers, potatoes,
spinach, summer
squash, tomatillos,
turnips, and tomatoes
(slicing and cherry) ;

7,200 pounds of their
fresh produce was
donated to local relief
organizations Caritas,

Capital Area Food Bank, Meals on Wheels and
More, Spring Terrace, Manos de Cristo, Casa
Marianella, and SafePlace. The remaining
10,650 pounds were sold at farmers’ markets
and to local community-supported agriculture
services and restaurants. The Urban Roots
teens manned tables at both the Downtown
Austin Farmers’ Market and the Montopolis
WIC Clinic. “People really loved our toma-
toes,” Christopher beams. “I was happy when
people told us, ‘Your vegetables are great!’ It
makes you really proud.”

There is no substitute for the pride and self-
reliance that comes from growing your own
food; the vegetables you pull from the ground
or off the vine yourself have a savor unlike any
other. The teenagers get to take home as much
produce as they want, and a lot of kids dis-
cover that they now enjoy vegetables more
than they thought possible.

“The organic carrots we grew, they were so
sweet; you could just eat them right out of the
ground,” remembers Vivian Alston, a junior at
LBJ. “I didn’t used to eat raw spinach, but I
look forward to it now. ”

Local chefs including Jack Gilmore, Angela
Shelf Medearis, Howard Kells, and Brian Hay
volunteered to teach cooking workshops, mak-
ing unfamiliar vegetables less intimidating. “I
had never tasted squash or beets before Urban
Roots,” laughs Veronica. “You know how when
you go to taste something new, you hesitate, like,
am I going to like it? You hesitate. It was like that
for me at the cooking
workshop, with beets.
But then I just fell in
love with them! And
then I thought, what
else do you have?”

The nutrition work-
shop had a big impact
on all the kids, and
they took what they
learned there home to
their families. “They
showed us how much
fat is in a Big Mac, and
I thought, ‘Oh my god, that is so nasty V” con-
tinues Veronica. “I went home and told my
family everything, especially about how much
sugar is in one can of soda.”

For Vivian Alston, the money-management
workshop proved the most helpful. “I already
knew a lot about eating healthy,” she says.
“But I didn’t know anything about handling
money. We earned over $2,500 over the
course of the program, so they had a woman
from the bank come out and show us how to
budget, how to save, and how to open a
checking account. She taught us about taxes,
and we discussed what we wanted to do with
our money; it was really informative. I just got
my driver’s license, and now I’ve started sav-
ing up for a car - and for gas and insurance.”
Evans stresses that while the kids learn
about farming, they also learn much more.
“What we are trying to do in our program, we

Volunteer

Applications

Urban Roots is taking applications this
fall for the spring 2009 growing season.
Applicants must be 14 to 17 years old and
attend school in the Austin area. Adult vol-
unteers are also needed. For more info, call
Kelly Stolpman at 342-0424 or see www.
youthlaunch.org/programs/urbanroots.

are teaching kids, yes, how to farm, but we are
also teaching how to work hard. How to be
responsible, and what does commitment mean?
Our kids have to commit to work from February
to July. That’s a long time in a kid’s life!”

Evans’ eyes grow serious and earnest as he
explains. “They get a chance to learn entrepre-
neurial skills and overcome learned helpless-
ness. We don’t expect them to become farmers; if
they learn about farming and can become advo-
cates for the environment and for farming later
on, that’s great. We want them to say: ‘I am
going to learn about all of this and keep it in my
mind, but also learn these interpersonal skills so
I have convincing skills when I apply for a job. I’ll
have convincing skills when I go to college.’ If
you are able to present yourself confidently, it
makes a huge difference.”

Both Vivian and Christopher are hoping to
come back and work at Urban Roots next year,
but only three of the 15 current students are
eligible to come back. The program needs to
benefit as many teens as possible, and there are
only 15 spots, total. Evans and Elliot have man-
aged to budget for three returning “assistant
crew leaders,” but the remaining positions must
be filled with newcomers.

“If we only had more land,” says Evans, “we
could rehire every kid from last year and expand,
as well. The program has been such a huge suc-
cess. We would love to hire all the teenagers who
are interested. If we could get an inexpensive
lease on a few more acres of arable land, we
wouldn’t have to disappoint any of these kids.”

“If only we could all come back next year,”
Vivian sighs. “My job at Urban Roots was better
than my mom’s job, even! I mean, I was happier
going to and coming from work than my mom ever
is. I don’t want to have to get a job in fast food or
anything like that. I want to work on the farm.”

“I learned so much,” inteijects Christopher, “that
my cousin, who really is a farmer - well, he has a
really big garden - he’s started asking me questions.
I turned in my application today; I’m really hoping
to come back for the second year.” ■

Check out the Urban Roots photo gallery online at

austinchronicle.com.

Eat Local Week

Dec. 6-13

Eat Local Week, sponsored by Edible
Austin magazine, is an invitation to Central
Texans to explore and celebrate the abun-
dance of local food and to raise money for
Urban Roots. The week will include many
fun events, such as:

Kick-off event at the Downtown
Austin Farmers’ Market: A proclamation
by the city of Austin, a 20-carrot salute, and
other special activities. (Dec. 6)

Urban Farm Bicycle Tour: Farm tours,
local food sampling, and fabulous prizes,
including a fully outfitted bicycle. Co-produced
with Bicycle Sport Shop, with additional
sponsorship from Whole Foods Market. To
register, e-mail: leslie_l@bicyclesportshop.com.
(Dec. 6)

Austin Tea Party: Many of Austin’s fine tea
purveyors will demonstrate all that is mysterious
and wonderful about tea, including chefs’ tea-
paired food tastings. (Dec. 6)

Alamo Film and Feast: The ultimate foodie
movie, Big Night, with a re-enactment of the
movie’s finale feast prepared by head chefs John
Bullington and Trish Eichelberger. (Dec. 7)

Drink Local Night: A celebration of locally
made spirits, ales, and beers, featuring the
ultimate local cocktail contest. (Dec. 9)

Art Gallery Night: Wally Workman Gallery
hosts a curated one-night show featuring well-
known Texas artists offering works with a
culinary theme. Also featured will be a Small
Bites of Austin Showcase of local food producers
providing a feasting of local-food treats and
drinks. Call the gallery at 472-7428 for more
info. (Dec. 11)

Finale event: Media Celebrity Local-
Food Cook-off: Come to the Downtown
Austin Farmers’ Market to witness John Kelso
challenge a celebrity rival in a local-food cook-
off. (Dec. 13)

(Consult www.edibleaustin.com for updates.)

Cutting in cooking
class: (l-r) Steve
Young, Will Fleshman.
Vivian Alston, Paul
Mendoza, Raymundo

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BARBECUE: BOWIE STREET BBQ AT WHOLE
FOODS MARKET All-natural Texas-style barbecue
in a lunch-counter setting, featuring house-
made beef andouille, chicken, pulled pork,
baby back ribs, and beef brisket. Available both
by the plate and by the pound. 525 N. Lamar,
476-1206. www.wholefoodsmarket.com. $

DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: JO’S HOT COFFEE You’ll
find an array of pastries and breakfast tacos early,
and later in the day, look for sandwiches, salads,
burgers, and a few hot plates. 242 W. Second,

469-9003. www.joscoffee.com. $

FINE DINING, FRENCH: AQUARELLE RESTAURANT
FRANQAIS Fine dining in a quietly understated
atmosphere. Traditional French service and
preparations, often using fresh local ingredients.
A special-occasion place with china, crystal,
and romantically dim lighting. 606 Rio Grande,
479-8117. www.aquarellerestaurant.com. $$$$

FINE DINING, SEAFOOD: EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER

GRILLE Fine dining in a supper-club atmo-
sphere, with live music almost every night.
Eddie V’s specializes in fresh seafood, oysters,
and prime beef. 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860.
www.eddiev.com. $$$$

FINE DINING: TRIO AT THE FOUR SEASONS Look
over Lady Bird Lake, and transcend the usual
hotel-dining scene. Focus on unusual and creative
preparations of appetizers and side dishes and
terrific steaks and seafood. At dinner, find a
special-occasion place with romantic lighting and
efficient service. 98 San Jacinto, 685-8300.
www.fourseasons.com/austin/dining. $$$$

ITALIAN, PIZZA: FRANK & ANGIE’S PIZZERIA

This is where the proprietors of Hut’s Hamburgers
prove they can make pizza and cannoli as
well as they do burgers and fries. 508 West,

472-3534. www.hutsfrankandangies.com. $$

PUB GRUB: 219 WEST An attractive, comfortable
place with exceptional small-dish food, great
drinks, and a stunning wine list. They also have
a 16-foot, hi-def TV and lots of beer specials.
219 W. Fourth, 474-2194.
www.219west.com. $$$

SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: TEXAS CHILI PARLOR

An Austin legend serving good burgers, sand-
wiches, Tex-Mex, and, of course, chili in many
varieties to satisfy all tastes, even vegetarian.
Laid-back atmosphere with a very eclectic
patronage. 1409 Lavaca, 472-2828.
www.cactushill.com/TCP/home.htm. $

STEAK HOUSE: FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE
& WINE BAR The main attraction is perfectly
prepared beef presented in a comfortable, clubby
setting and enhanced by an extensive wine list
and accomplished service. 320 E. Second,
457-1500. www.flemingssteakhouse.com. $$$$

TEX-MEX: NUEVO LEON TACO EXPRESS The

satellite location of this Eastside favorite is
only open for breakfast and lunch, but you’ll
find the same chile con queso, tacos, and
combination dinners that you crave.

1500 San Jacinto, 236-8226. $

EAST

AMERICAN CAFE: ARKIE’S GRILL This cafe has
been around since 1948, maintaining the
same super-home-style menus and hospitable
spirit. Thursday’s turkey-and-dressing special is
highly recommended. 4827 E. Cesar Chavez,
385-2986. $

AMERICAN CAFE: CISCO’S BAKERY In the

breakfast business for 50 years, Cisco’s still
serves good migas, huevos rancheros, and hot
biscuits with healthy doses of Austin political
history. 1511 E. Sixth, 478-2420. $

BURGER JOINT: DAN’S HAMBURGERS One of

several burger outlets operated by Austin’s
hamburger king, Dan Junk, whose trademark
has always been good, fresh food and friendly
service. 844 Airport, 385-2262. $

CAJUN/CREOLE: NUBIAN QUEEN LOLA’S CAJUN
SOUL FOOD KITCHEN A proprietress as friendly
as her food is good serves up huge portions of
good burgers and Cajun chow from a limited
menu. The dining room is communal and friendly,
and Lola is a blessing. 1815 Rosewood,
474-5652. www.nubianqueenlolas.com. $

DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: GALLOWAY SANDWICH

SHOP For Southerners, this is the familiar food
that your granny used to cook. Meat with two
sides done right, and it changes every day. Try
the roast beef and sweet potato pie.

1914 E. 12th, 482-0757. $

INTERIOR MEXICAN, TEX-MEX: EL CHILE CAFEY
CANTINA The bill of fare features some Tex-Mex
dishes, several Interior specialties, and a number
of good vegetarian options. 1809 Manor Rd.,
457-9900. www.elchilecafe.com. $$

SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: HOOVER’S COOKING

Dishing out huge portions of freshly cooked,
Southern-style home cooking such as jerk pork
ribs, the bella muffuletta, and heavenly pork
chops, this place remains a popular standby.
2002 Manor Rd., 479-5006.
www.hooverscooking.com. $$

TEX-MEX: ABARROTES MEXICANOS This family
has been making breakfast tacos and lunch
plates for this neighborhood for more than nine
years. Coming soon is their new Mexican import
shop in the back. 901 Tillery, 926-1709. $

LAKE

CHINESE: PAO’S MANDARIN HOUSE Open
24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, this
Mandarin restaurant offers daily lunch and
dinner specials. 2300 Lohmans Spur #134,
263-8869. $$

FINE DINING, ITALIAN, SEAFOOD: ROCCO’S
GRILL Overlooking the hills of Lakeway, its
pasta and seafood selections are the way to
go. 900 RR 620 S. Ste. A-106, 263-8204.
www.roccosgrill.com. $$$

SOUTHWESTERN: THE OASIS Live music and
great food continue on the terrace at the “sun-
set capital of Texas.” Still the perfect ending
for a day on the lake. 6550 Comanche Trail,
266-2442. www.oasis-austin.com. $$

BURGER JOINT: BURGER HOUSE The only thing
better than the burgers is an order of Jack’s
Famous Fries, liberally doused in their secret
herbed salt. And the only thing better than the
fries is the handmade milkshakes.

4211 Spicewood Springs Rd., 346-7200.
www.burgerhouse.com. $

BURGER JOINT: TOP NOTCH RESTAURANT Top

Notch smears Thousand Island dressing on both
sides of a plain, untoasted roll. The large, hand-
formed, charbroiled patty is enhanced by good-
quality lettuce and tomatoes. 7525 Burnet Rd.,
452-2181. $

CHINESE, INDIAN: MASALA WOK Ethnic fusion
that offers traditional Indian fare, as well
as Indo-Chinese dishes: a blend of wok-
cooking and Indian spices with plenty of
vegetarian options. 1100 Center Ridge #300,
251-9696. www.masalawok.com. $

INTERNATIONAL: THE VERANDA RESTAURANT &

BAR Situated in Northcross Mall, the propri-
etors promise to still be there in 20 years. The
Veranda has a terrific selection of appetizers
and entrees, such as the leg of lamb pomegran-
ate. 2525 W. Anderson #260, 300-2660.
www.theverandarestaurantbar.com. $$

ITALIAN: BUCA Dl BEPPO This national chain
serves “immigrant Southern Italian” cuisine.
Dishes are served family-style or personalized
for two with smaller portions. 3612 Tudor,
342-8462. www.bucadibeppo.com. $$$

JAPANESE: MIKADO RYOTEI Not just for sushi,
Mikado also serves Japanese tapas, or
robata, a mix of grilled seafood, meats, and
vegetables. Great date spot. 9033 Research,
833-8188. www.mikadoryotei.com. $$$

STEAK HOUSE: MESA RANCH The menu is heav-
ily weighted toward items from the mesquite
grill, expertly prepared. Portions are generous,
spicing is robust, and the service is friendly.
Don’t miss the fried cactus or chicken-fried
venison. 8108 Mesa Ste. C-100, 853-9480.
www.mesaranchaustin.com. $$$

TEX-MEX: ELTACORRIDO In addition to standard
breakfast-taco fare (bacon, egg, potato, chorizo,
etc.), they serve chicken, carnitas, and barba-
coa tacos, as well as burritos. 9320 N. Lamar,
873-8602. www.tacorrido.com. $

TEX-MEX: ENCHILADAS Y MAS TEX-MEX
RESTAURANT Hundreds of satisfied customers
will testify that the chorizo migas are worth
a drive across town. 1911 144 Anderson,

467-7100. www.enchiladasymas.com. $

VIETNAMESE: LE SOLEIL One of the original
Sunflower folks brings us a similar menu with
a few new tweaks. Bottom line: It’s good and
dependable, and it’s a fave of Viet families.
9616 N. Lamar #156, 821-0396. $$

NORTH CENTRAL

BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: FLIPNOTICS AT THE

TRIANGLE Go for light fare such as cilantro-
lamb wraps, sandwiches, salads, and pastries.
Don't forget to wash it all down with a terrific
coffee drink. 4600 Guadalupe, 380-0097.

www.flipnotics.com. $

BARBECUE: POK-E-JO’S SMOKEHOUSE The

newest location of this Fifth Street favorite has
the same great grub. Don’t miss the desserts.
1000 E. 41st (Hancock Center), 302-1200.
www.pokejos.com. $

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DOWNTOWN AUSTIN I 117 San Jacinto @ 2nd Street I 476-3938
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CHINESE: SHANGHAI RESTAURANT The 168-
item menu contains enough to satisfy any
craving, from the usual favorites to some
exotic Cantonese offerings. 6718 Middle
Fiskville, 458-8088. $$

DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: JASON’S DELI The
sandwich selection ranges from traditional deli
to wraps and pita pockets, plus there are spe-
cial menu sections dedicated to heart-healthy
and kids’ choices. 1000 E. 41st #940,
453-8666. www.jasonsdeli.com. $$

DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: NEWORLDELI This
concept cafe stresses customer comfort, and
that starts with offering lunch for less than $5.
4101 Guadalupe, 451-7170.
www.newworlddeli.com. $

MIDDLE EASTERN: PHARA’S MEDITERRANEAN
CUISINE & CHRISTOPHER’S CASBAH Housed
in the former Ararat location, the menu offers
several vegetarian options, as well as salmon
and lamb surprises. Ill E. North Loop,
632-7067. www.pharas.com. $$

SEAFOOD: QUALITY SEAFOOD MARKET Friendly
bartenders and two flat-screens for your view-
ing pleasure. It’s the place where all your favor-
ite restaurants get their seafood, so you know
it’s the freshest. Hit the oyster bar for lunch
or an early dinner. 5621 Airport, 454-5827.
www.qualityseafoodmarket.com. $

TEX-MEX: TAMALE HOUSE An Airport Boulevard
institution, T-House offers authentic, no-frills
Tex-Mex. Pull up a chair on the sunbaked con-
crete, and forget about tamales; they actually
do not serve them. 5003 Airport, 453-9842.
www.myspace.com/tamalehouse. $

VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN

A welcoming vegetarian refuge since 1979, the
completely vegetarian menu is a mix of Southern
and Tex-Mex and includes a selection of soups,
salads, and heartier fare. 4215 Duval St.,
451-3994. www.motherscafeaustin.com. $$

SOUTH

AMERICAN CAFE: HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL

A welcome South Austin branch of the venerable
neighborhood institution, where the coziness of
the original is replaced with a sleek sensibility.
The menu is identical, however, including the
legendary fries. 4521 West Gate Blvd.,
899-2700. www.hydeparkbarandgrill.com. $$

AMERICAN CAFE: MAGNOLIA CAFE SOUTH This
second location packs ’em in at all hours like the
original, but especially at mealtimes, if the lines
at lunch are any indication. 1920 S. Congress,

445-0000. www.cafemagnolia.com. $

BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN:
BOULDIN CREEK COFFEEHOUSE & CAFE

Pick up a book, play Battleship, and enjoy all
your favorite coffee drinks along with some
killer honey lemonade. They also have a small
vegetarian menu. 1501 S. First, 416-1601.

www.bouldincreek.com. $

BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: TEXAS FRENCH

BREAD Still the perfect place for a scone,
a pastry, and a cup of coffee. The sand-
wich menu offers light lunch fare, and, of
course, it’s a great place for breakfast.

1722 S. Congress, 440-1122.

www.texasfrenchbread.com. $

BARBECUE: RICHARD JONES PIT BARBEQUE: THE
ORIGINAL Order takeout, or sit yourself down for
some fast, delicious ’cue. 2304 S. Congress,

444- 2272. www.rjbbq.com. $

CHINESE: TIEN JIN CHINESE RESTAURANT

They’ll cook Cantonese any way you want it
here. Easy to reach from anywhere in town,
they offer great service, good prices, and deli-
cious chow. Don’t miss the Hong Kong-style
lemon chicken. 4534 West Gate Blvd. #105,
892-6699. www.angelfire.com/tx2/
alphaomega/TIEN.html. $$

SEAFOOD: CATFISH PARLOUR When the gang's
hungry, take a crowd to eat in, or arrange to
have them cater your next outdoor fish fry.
4705 E. Ben White, 443-1698.

www.catfishparlour.com. $$

TEX-MEX: FREEBIRDS WORLD BURRITO

Stratocaster-sized burritos in a rock & roll
environment are the stock-in-trade at this joint.
This is big-boy eating heaven: You don’t have
to include the veggie stuff you don’t want, and
there’s no way you can walk away hungry. 515
S. Congress, 462-3512. www.freebirds.com. $

TEX-MEX: LA FERIA RESTAURANT This boister-
ous hot spot offers free tea with the lunch
specials - we suggest the burritos. Live maria-
chi on Thursdays. 2010 S. Lamar, 326-8301.

www.laferiaaustin.com. $$

THAI: THAI KITCHEN This family of restaurants
remains a perennial favorite among Thai-food
lovers. Try this suburban location, and you won’t
be disappointed. 803 E. William Cannon,

445- 4844. www.thaikitchenofaustin.com. $$

AMERICAN CAFE: DRUNGO ICE HOUSE offers a
full menu including hamburgers and sandwiches,
pizzas, soup, and salad, as well as a good list
of local and national brews. 2828 Rio Grande,
478-6666. www.drungoicehouse.com. $

AMERICAN CAFE: KERBEY LANE CAFE Famously
fabulous for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and
a favorite of the late-night set. It wears its
groovy legacy on its sleeve, with Frisbee-sized
pancakes, pastas, black beans, and great cof-
fee. 2606 Guadalupe, 477-5717.
www.kerbeylanecafe.com. $$

AMERICAN CAFE: SPIDER HOUSE PATIO BAR &
CAFE This cozy old North Campus bungalow
serves coffee drinks, juice, and beer, as well as
a small, eclectic, vegetarian-friendly menu in a
comfortably shabby atmosphere. 2908 Fruth,
480-9562. www.spiderhousecafe.com. $

BURGER JOINT, DELIVERY, PUB GRUB: PLUCKERS
WING BAR This may be the local Oakland
Raiders headquarters, but there are plenty of
TVs, and the wings keep coming until the wee
hours. 2222 Rio Grande, 469-WING (9464).
www.pluckers.com. $

CHINESE: SUN HING CHINESE RESTAURANT

Kung Pao, General Tso, and other Chinese
standbys served up fresh and inexpensive.
2801 Guadalupe, 478-6504. $$

DELI/SANDWICH SHOP, MEDITERRANEAN:
LONGHORN PO-BOYS & FALAFEL It seems
unlikely, but this tasty and unassuming sand-
wich shop makes some of the city’s best and
cheapest falafel. Famous for stuffed grape
leaves. 2901-A Medical Arts, 495-9228. $

MIDDLE EASTERN: KISMET CAFE Serving
Mediterranean-American cuisine, Philly
subs, gyros, and salads. 411 W. 24th,
236-1811. $$

THAI: THAI NOODLES ETC. HOUSE A good
selection of Thai street foods, including Thai
noodle soups, dry noodle bowls, and stir-fried
noodles. 2602 Guadalupe, 494-1011. $

VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: VEGGIE HEAVEN The
menu is heavy on Asian dishes but also offers
meat- and dairy-free pastas, sandwiches, and
desserts. 1914-A Guadalupe, 457-1013. $

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‘August Evening’ AFS Doc Tour TV Eye Film Listings

TASTE OF ASIA

Austin Asian
American Film
Festival 2008

The Austin Asian Film Festival is
dead; long live the Austin Asian
American Film Festival. You’d be forgiv-
en for mistaking the two, especially
since the former’s former director,
Masashi Niwano, founded the latter,
and the aim is the same: to bring an
international slate of Asian-made and
Asian-themed films to Austin. This
weekend’s highlights include opening
night film Hollywood Chinese from
Oscar-nominated documentarian Arthur
Dong (who’ll be in attendance); a two-
film tribute to Vincent Chin, a Chinese-
American hate-crime victim whose
death galvanized the Asian-American
community in the Eighties; a Saturday
night concert at Club de Ville featuring
Japanese bands Black Panda and
Giant Flornets; and closing-night film
Still Life, a haunting narrative about the
devastating effect of the Three Gorges
Dam on those living along the banks of
the Yangtze River. - Kimberley Jones

The Austin Asian American Film Festival runs
Thursday, Oct. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 12. For
more info, including ticket prices and opening and
closing party details, visit www.aaaff.org.

Thursday, Oct. 9

Hollywood Chinese * (D: Arthur Dong, USA),
7pm, Alamo Ritz

Friday, Oct. 10

Long Story Short* (D: Christine Choy, USA),
4pm, Alamo Village

Tribute to Vincent Chin*, 5:30pm, Alamo
Village

Behind Forgotten Eyes
(D: Anthony Gilmore, USA), 6pm, UT (CAL
100 )

Joyful Life (D: Anita Wen-S hen Chang,
Taiwan), 8pm, UT (CAL 100)

Wonderful Town (D: Aditya Assarat,
Thailand), 8pm, Alamo Village

* - denotes filmmaker in attendance

Saturday, Oct. 11

Shorts 1: Identity Crisis*, noon, Alamo Village
Lovers (D: Carl Zhang, Australia/China), 2pm, Alamo Village
Shorts 3: Tales of Love*, 4pm, Alamo Village
Pretty to Think So* (D: Francis Flsueh &

Steven Flahn, USA), 6pm, Alamo Village
No Smoking (D: Anurag Kashyap, India),

8pm, Alamo Village

Sunday, Oct. 12

Shorts 4: What Ails Us, noon, Alamo Village

Shorts 2: Transforming/Performing Iran, 2pm, Alamo Village

Wings of Defeat (D: Risa Morimoto, USA/Japan),

4pm, Alamo Village

Santa Mesa (D: Ron Morales, Phillipines),

6pm, Alamo Village

Still Life (D: Jia Zhang Ke, China), 8pm, Alamo Village

HUMAN TRAFFIC

A new rockumentary aims to do
something about the modern slave trade

BY DOUG FREEMAN

Often, the causes that call us are the culmination of coincidence,
an awareness brought to action by the aligning of circumstance. The
seeds of Justin Dillon’s fight to bring attention to the plight of mod-
ern-day slavery were planted while recording with his band in L.A. in
2004, when the songwriter came across Peter Landesman’s New York
Times Magazine article “The Girls Next Door.”

“That story was just in my head, and then the
band got asked to go play music in Russia,”
relates Dillon. “We were playing shows there for a
week, and we met all these girls that were just
telling us about these opportunities to come to
the States or to Italy to be waitresses or all this
other stuff. And these are smart girls, they’re edu-
cated, but they’re 17 and 18 and so desirous to
get out of there that even when we told them that
they were prime victims for trafficking, they did not
want to hear it. They’d show me some of their offers, and it was all
bogus. It wasn’t a business deal; no one would do a deal like that.
And they just didn’t want to believe it. When I experienced that, the
fact that this is happening in the open, that’s when I came back and
began contacting organizations to see how I could help.”

The result is Dillon’s Call + Response, a harrowing and important
documentary on the contemporary slave trade that attempts to engage
an audience that he recognizes is largely unaware that the problem
even exists. The worldwide statistics are staggering, but in the United
States alone, an estimated 200,000 people are living in slavery.

Dillon’s approach is emotionally effective, even if narratively digres-
sive, juxtaposing interviews with journalists and politicians and brutally
horrific testimonials from survivors and activists with immaculately shot
performances from musicians such as Imogen Fleap, Rocco DeLuca,
Talib Kweli, Cold War Kids, and Matisyahu (whose segment was filmed
in Austin), as well as a fascinating history of the relationship between
music and slavery delivered by Cornel West. Most moving is Emmanuel
Jal’s witness with his autobiographical anthem “Warchild.”

“My hunch was that the music was going to pull information past
firewalls that just information alone won’t hit,” offers Dillon. “It’s not

really a bait and switch, but it’s more
about a marriage between the infor-
mation and music that can maybe
take the information a little bit further.
The whole idea is just getting a
response out of people, and music
can bring that information further into
the heart and the soul and the mind.”
As its title suggests, Call + Response
attempts to offset the overwhelming
paralysis in audiences made suddenly
aware of the extreme reach of the injustices by inciting a simple yet
necessary response. In the globalized market, we all are unwittingly cul-
pable in sustaining slave labor through consumption of goods as innoc-
uous as cell phones and coffee; only in a demand for and creation of a
viable market for slave-free products will corporations ultimately audit
their supply chains.

As Dillon points out, slavery operates in the open, but because we
don’t recognize it as a 21st century problem, we simply don’t see it.
Call + Response is at the very least an attempt to open our eyes. ■

Call + Response screens Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Dobie Theatre. See Film Listings
for showtimes. For more information, see www.callandresponse.com.

film news

BY JOE O’CONNELL

SPAGHETTI WESTERN TAKES AIM
AT INCENTIVES BATTLE

Set decorator Jeanette Scott may be
the perfect example of the impact of inef-
fective Texas film incentives, and thus it’s
no surprise to see her artistic hand in an
event aimed at turning the tide. It’s called
Spaghetti Western and planned for Nov. 7
at Star Hill Ranch, an Old West set that
has been used in a few films in its time.
Scenes from Italian Westerns will screen
in the background on the Alamo
Drafthouse’s inflatable screen during the
seated dinner for 500 as local film celebs
wander about. Gary Clark Jr.’s band will
play. A silent auction will be conducted.

Most important, Scott hopes it will raise
$20,000 for the Central Texas region of
the Texas Motion Picture Alliance, a
film lobbying group working to convince
the Legislature in 2009 to increase the
current 5% financial incentives offered to
somewhere in the 15% range, so Texas
can regain the Flollywood films that now
bypass the Lone Star State in favor of
more incentive-rich states such as
Louisiana and New Mexico at 25% and
Michigan, which is offering up to 42%. “If
we’re not successful, nothing is going to
be shooting,” Scott says. “Our feature film
industry is gasping for breath. We have to
make this happen this [legislative] ses-
sion, or it’s too late.”

As we said, Scott could well be the
Texas film industry’s poster child: She’s
been hard at work for 20 years on such
films as Selena, Richard Linklater’s
The Newton Boys, most of Robert
Rodriguez’s films, and, most recently,
Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life. “I’ve man-
aged to stay right here at home and work
continuously in Austin,” she says. “Two
years ago, that just disappeared.” She’s
been offered two film projects out of
state recently, one in Louisiana and the
other in Puerto Rico, which just began
offering 40% incentives. Her commitment
to the Texas incentives battle and the
Spaghetti Western fundraising event con-
vinced her to say no. See more at
www.centraltxmpa.org.

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Trial and Error, Rewarded

The days- and nights- and years-long journey to make 'August Evening’

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

“Life can be disappointing even in the best
of times,” one character tells another in August
Evening, and it’s one of the many moments
of understated resonance in Chris Eska’s
contemplative first feature. Though he and
his producers joke about how poorly it might
serve as a poster tagline, there’s a bittersweet
truth to it: The best of times are fleeting for
all of us, of course, but at least they seem to
come and go and come back again. For fifty-
something widower Jaime (Pedro Castaneda)
and twentysomething widow Lupe (Veronica
Loren), his daughter-in-law, those times are
literally buried in the ground. As the unlikely
duo staggers around Texas with no docu-
mentation and no work, their hope erodes
along with the audience’s. The hurt in this
family drama (its leads heretofore nonactors,
its language Spanish) is so relentless that you
half expect the screen to go black in mourning
- the ambient cicadas, San Antonio buses, and
soundtrack from Jonathan Hughes and Windy
& Carl to fade away; cinematographer Yasu
Tanida’s battered piers, roadside carnivals, and
shotgun shacks to cave in on themselves; our
protagonists and their underdogged senses of
humor to vaporize - and you half wish it would.
But by the closing credits, you’re glad and
grateful that it hasn’t; the ultimate heartbreak
happens when the experience has ended.

For Eska, a soft-spoken encyclopedia of mid-
century world cinema, the experience of mak-
ing August Evening - much of it in and around
where he was raised in Gonzales County - was
a trying time itself. One example that comes
to mind is two people helping him, including
production designer Elysia Van Deusen, were
more than mildly electrocuted. On the first
day. “A disaster,” he says. “I wanted to quit.
I wanted to go home.” One problem: He was
home, having moved back to Texas after finish-
ing the short “Doki-Doki” in Japan and gradu-
ating from UCLA’s Master of Fine Arts program.
He wanted to do this. He had to. So, like his
characters, the writer-director and his crew
persevered. Following a brief hospital stint, Van
Deusen was back for the 18-hour, 105-degree
days. Eska rented a house to accommodate
20 people living co-op style and sleeping on
air mattresses. With support from the locals
(home-cooked meals and full borrowing rights
at thrift stores), everyone got over the dust,
chicken shit, and dwindling budget. If it wasn’t
exactly Herzog, it at least sounds like an inter-
esting shoot. Upon the film’s arrival on the
festival circuit, things got more interesting:
It was embraced across the board, capturing
the Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative
Feature in the wake of its Los Angeles Film
Festival premiere and later the John Cassavetes
Award at Film Independent’s Spirit Awards,
where Castaneda was nominated along with
Don Cheadle, Frank Langella, Tony Leung,
and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Best Male

Lead. Loren won Best Actress at the Zimbabwe
(!) International Film Festival. Leading up to
its opening here, proclamations in support of
August Evening are being issued statewide.

Heady times, maybe even the best of them,
but the 32-year-old Eska - now living in Austin
- knows things could get disappointing if
people don’t actually go see the film. (It opens
in Austin on Oct. 10.) He doesn’t feel pressure
from his distributor, the legendary Moctesuma
Esparza and Maya Pictures, or even par-
ticularly care about the money. He started
with little more than a Texas Filmmakers’
Production Fund grant and doesn’t expect to
get rich. He just believes that, on some level,
August Evening will mean as much to viewers
as it does to him. Which is why he and co-
producer Jason Wehling sat down at Progress
Coffee a couple of weeks ago to talk about it.

Chris Eska: I graduated from film school in
2003. “Doki-Doki” ... it had about as much
success as a short film could have had, but that
doesn’t really mean anything in Hollywood.
So I crashed on my then-girlfriend’s futon for
about a year and a half and just watched about
three or four DVDs every single day. Broke
them down, tried to figure out exactly why
they worked, what I liked about the characters.
I started to get really frustrated that I wasn’t
being productive, and it finally boiled over. I
decided I was going to sell my car, move back
to Texas, and get this feature going. People put
a lot of pressure on their first film, their first fea-
ture, and a lot of people think that you should
do something that’s going to be a calling card,
something slick that’s going to impress every-
body and make sure you can get your big 15- to
20-million-dollar film made. But I thought, you
know, I may never get another chance, because
it takes so many people, so much time, so
much money to make a film, that I wanted to
do something that was important to me even if
it was just played in my parents’ living room.
And then, if it never made it, I don’t know, at
least I said what I had to say.

Austin Chronicle: What were you trying to say
with August Evening?

CE: I was thinking about family issues.
Generational senses of duty. I was thinking
about things that had happened in my family,
the emotions I go through, that I feel like we
all go through, regardless of our backgrounds,
that almost nobody ever shows in films.
Mainstream, arthouse, even foreign. I felt like
there wasn’t anything out there right now sim-
ilar to what I had in mind. I wanted to try and
give an audience a place to go and experience
those emotions. [Pauses] Jason actually quit
his job at PBS to come and do this. That’s how
everything was done. Just so you know, Jason
is sort of the silly one, and I’m the serious one.
I like Ozu; he likes zombie films. But he keeps
me from being too pretentious, and I keep

Local filmmaker Chris Eska
juggling a few of the many
awards he’s won for his first
feature, August Evening.

him from going off the deep end. But he’s the
kind of guy I need on the set, because I’m so
focused. He really held everything together.
Jason Wehling: I’ve known Chris for a
long time. We were in undergraduate school
together [at Rice] .

CE: We met at Liberty Lunch. We kept going
to the same shows all of the time.

JW: We realized, “I’ve seen you at school
before,” and then we started being in the same
classes. There weren’t many people; there
weren’t very many classes for film. I helped
him on some of his shorts. I acted in one
of them. And then, over the years, we both
ended up in L.A. He went to graduate school
at UCLA, and I went to D.C., to work for PBS
in their programming department. We stayed
connected, and one of his films came through,
so I helped him find the right people, and they
loved it. I didn’t really have to do anything: I
just pushed it in the right direction. And later
on, he’s like, “I want to do a feature,” and I
said, “Well, all right.” [Laughs] From seeing
his shorts develop, I saw him turn a comer at
“Doki-Doki.” I wanted to help. I was tired of
sitting behind a desk; I wanted to come back
[to Texas]. And I knew this was a project I
could get behind.

CE: I wanted to come back to Austin. Jason
wanted to come back to Austin. He was with
his fiancee, now his wife. It was about sort
of coming home and staying home. “I don’t
want to leave anymore.” . . . When I made the
Japanese film, it was really about my isolation
in the modern metropolis of Los Angeles. I

wasn’t connecting with people. That’s what
film’s all about: How to connect with people.
Then I came back to Austin, and within two
months, I had more friends than I’ve ever
had in my life. I had a huge network here,
instantly, because it attracts a certain kind of
people.

JW: So, then, I got back. He showed me a
treatment. We wrote out a TFPF grant applica-
tion that helped get our minds around exactly
what was going to go on. Went into prepro-
duction off of a 16-page treatment. Cast the
film off of the treatment, did everything. Chris
started working on the script, and we started
finding locations, putting things together,
gathering up the props. A lot of students from
UT came down to Gonzales.

CE: I’d say half the crew was from UT.

AC: There are moments when the script, this time
frame in the film, seems plucked from the strata
of these characters’ lives. You can totally imagine
their pasts and their futures with very little expo-
sition. Whenever I describe August Evening, its
subject matter or whatever, to friends, they ask if
it’s a documentary.

CE: In terms of it feeling like a documentary,
some of my heroes, they started out making
documentary films and then moved into fic-
tion. I thought it was important to have a hand-
held camera; not an annoying shaky cam for no
reason but to make it feel as though the camera
- and the audience, hopefully - is another fam-
ily member sitting in the room. ■

August Evening opens in Austin on Oct. 1 0. See next
week’s Film Listings for more on the film.

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Democracy’s Feet of Clay

AFS Documentary Tour presents ‘Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?’

BY AWE S. LEWIS

Herewith the second of three pre-election
docs presented this fall by the Austin Film
Society that examine how the political pro-
cess can subvert the democratic ideal. In
his first feature doc, the terrifically titled
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?,
filmmaker Frank Popper shows us in how
many ways the decks are stacked against
a political rookie who, for the very best of
reasons, decides to run for office. Jeff Smith,
a 29-year-old Wesleyan graduate and instruc-
tor at Washington University in St. Louis,
was just one of 10 who threw his hat into the
ring for the 2004 Democratic primary for the
U.S. House seat vacated by Dick Gephardt.
The most formidable of his opponents, who
included state legislators (and, just to up
the name confusion quotient, yet another
“Smith,” also a Washington U prof), was
Russ Carnahan, a ho-hum state legislator
who also happened to be the son of popular
late Governor Mel Carnahan (who died in
a plane crash during a 2000 run for U.S.
Senate and was elected posthumously; his
wife, Jean, was subsequently appointed to
take his place). What candidate Jeff Smith
was up against was the fact that in politics,
name recognition is huge; in Missouri, the
Carnahan name was analogous to Kennedy.

Smith was just the kind of guy - smart,
articulate, energetic, and a hardworking
advocate for the disenfranchised, who made
up the majority of his district - we’d like to
see more of in politics. Alas, with no war
chest and an enthusiastic, altruistic, but
inexperienced campaign team, not to men-
tion a skeptical mom and grandma who
believed that his time would be far better
spent getting his doctorate, he had some
obstacles. Popper follows Smith’s grassroots,
hard-on-the-shoe-leather-and-cell-phone-
minutes campaign and keeps us on the edge
of our seats for the duration of the film.
Along the way, everyone learns a thing or two
about the pragmatics of the politics game. I
won’t ruin the ending for you.

Austin Chronicle: How did you get interested in
this project? Did you know Jeff Smith beforehand?
Frank Popper: I was sickened by Bush’s reck-
less foreign policy and his rush into war, and
one day I had a phone call with my father
about it, and he could hear the steam coming
out of my ears, and he said: “You’re a film-
maker. Why don’t you get it off your chest and
make a documentary?” ... One day I was at
a booksigning event in downtown St. Louis,
and there was this guy, Jeff Smith, working
the crowd of a couple hundred people, and he
came up to me and said: “Hi, I’m Jeff Smith.
I’m running for Congress.” I had heard of
this Smith, who seemed to be capturing some
attention, but since there were two Smiths and
both were teaching at Washington University,
I wasn’t sure which Smith this was, so I said,
“I think I’ve heard of you.” Jeff said, “Yeah,
you and about 35 other
people.” Total conversa-
tion was 20 seconds long,
but I immediately liked
his demeanor, and he had
a sparkle in his eye, and
I sat down and said to
the woman sitting next to
me, “I think I’m going to make a documentary
about that guy.” One of the reasons Jeff got
into the race was that he, too, was profoundly
disturbed by the way Bush went into war,
and one of the central points of his campaign
was to attack Bush on the war and his foreign
policy. I knew I had found my subject.

AC: Your first-time doc experience, filming
Smith’s campaign, sort of parallels his maiden
run for office. Did it go as you expected?

FP: There was only me with a camera, so I
couldn’t be everywhere at the same time. I had
to make choices on the fly - do I stay with Jeff
or do I hang back at campaign headquarters,
or do I go to a staff meeting or to a political
forum? - lots of stuff to shoot, but I could only
be in one place at a time. I was flying by the
seat of my pants. After a while, I began to real-
ize that Jeff was usually in or near the eye of the

storm, so I chose to spend the
majority of my time with him.

I didn’t know what to expect.

I had never been behind the
scenes of a political campaign
before, so, like most of my
work, it was really a journey of
discovery. I just had to make
sure that while I was discov-
ering stuff, I was keeping the
shots in focus, getting good sound, and hop-
ing to be where the action was as much as
possible. I was holding up as my model D.A.
Pennebaker’s The War Room, and I remember
telling my wife at the end of the day, “My
god, I can’t believe the footage I’m getting.”
It seemed to me at the time that from a story
standpoint, what I was getting appeared to be
more of an emotional roller coaster than what
I had recalled seeing in
The War Room.

Surprises? Witnessing
Jeff Smith’s campaign
from the inside was an
emotional roller coaster
unlike anything I had
experienced before. And
I think the surprises unfold pretty readily in
the movie as you watch it. Artie Harris, Jeff’s
communications director, told me once when I
lowered the camera after some drama that had
just unfolded, “We have bigger ups and downs
in one day than most people have in a year.”
And I think that’s true. I remember thinking
that my challenge as a filmmaker was to make
sure that those surprises that I was witnessing
made it to the screen in a way that would be
as powerful for the audience as it was for me.
AC: What would you like the viewer to take away
from your film?

FP: This film is really a microcosm, in many
ways, of what is happening right now on the
national level. It’s the story of how our American
political election system is broken. The majority
of voters don’t pay attention, and if they do,
most wait until the closing weeks of a campaign

to tune in. Most of the corporate media don’t
do a very good job of covering the issues that
will have a profound effect on the voters. Our
country faces some of the most difficult and
complex problems: Our foreign policy, econo-
my, and our health-care system are in shambles,
and yet it is possible to spend tons of time and
column inches on dumb stuff about who said
what about “lipstick on a pig.” It’s a sad state
of affairs that it takes doomsday on Wall Street
to put this kind of political conversation in
perspective. It’s the way that campaigns game
the system, and much of the corporate media
are willing to play along. The political establish-
ment makes it nearly impossible for fresh voices
to be heard. The money that’s needed to be
raised and spent to run a campaign is off the
charts. Political dynasties and name recognition
are worth so much more than talent. If you’ve
got name recognition, you’ve automatically got
a huge advantage over your lesser-known rivals,
whether you’re even qualified to run.

AC: Any surprising reactions to the film?

FP: I am amazed at the number of conserva-
tives and Republicans who send Jeff Smith, a
liberal Democrat, letters and e-mails saying
that they don’t agree with many of his posi-
tions but who go on to praise him for his
strength and courage and to offer their sup-
port the next time he runs for office. I think
this says something about how people can
be attracted to a candidate in spite of his or
her positions on the issues and might offer
some insight into why so many Democrats
supported McCain in 2000 and why so many
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Loosens the Corset

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

If you’re tired of those silly women on
Wisteria Lane, can’t stomach the creepy goings
on in Bon Temps, don’t like football, and have
had it with solving crimes or animated dads on
Sunday night, PBS is launching a new addition
to its Masterpiece Theatre franchise, one that’s
well worth checking out. Hosted by British
actor Matthew Goode ( Brideshead Revisited),
Masterpiece Contemporary premieres this
Sunday with the five-part thriller, The Last
Enemy. It will make you forget what else is on,
as it sucks you into a world in the not-so-distant
future, where anyone can be tracked down and
monitored through a national ID system and a
network of cameras with lightning-fast speed.
Of course, the idea is to protect the innocent
and keep those with nefarious goals under
scrutiny. “The innocent have nothing to hide,”
series creator Peter Berry ( Prime Suspect 6: The
Last Witness) posits in press materials. But what
happens when “the innocent have to prove
they are, in fact, innocent?” Or when “ordinary
citizens become the enemy?”

The series centers on Stephen Ezard
(Benedict Cumberbatch), a brilliant math-
ematician who is summoned to London
for his activist brother’s funeral. Totally
immersed in his work for four years, Stephen
has lost touch with his brother and how the
city has evolved in his absence. So when
he returns to the apartment he kept in
London, he’s deeply disturbed
find there a dying woman being
nursed by his brother’s widow, a
doctor named Yasim (Anamaria
Marinca). Things get more dis-
tressing when he’s made an
offer he can’t refuse to continue
his research - if only he will be a
public advocate for a new surveil-
lance system called Total Information
Awareness. In the meantime, an enigmatic
government agent has gone rogue and has
Ezard in his sights for his own personal
needs.

The Last Enemy has the excitement of 24
with down-to-earth performances. A love
story is a clunky addition to the mix, and
only in the last episode does it make dramatic
sense. But even this is easily forgiven once the
series careens to its hair-raising conclusion.

The Last Enemy airs Sundays at 8pm on
PBS through Nov. 2.

First Blush

Many new series have already hit the air-
waves. Here’s a gunshot view of what’s new
and what’s worth watching:

True Blood (HBO): Sexual energy and the
dangerously erotic have long been staples of the
vampire myth, but in this Southern Gothic spin
from Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), the sexuality
leans heavily toward the sleazy. I want to like

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Anna Paquin as Sookie, the “just a waitress”
protagonist who, in this rendition of the TV
vampire series, has a low-wattage super power
in her ability to hear what people are thinking,
but her wide-eyed innocence is a touch too
precious. The subplot of the vampires coming
out in the open and seeking their rights is inter-
esting, but with bodies dropping all over town,
the series has turned into a murder-mystery
that happens to have vampires attached. The
verdict: still watching. Airs Sundays at 8pm.

Fringe (Fox): This X-Files wannabe from
J.J. Abrams and company had a stylish sea-
son opener. Now it’s down to business as
another police procedural with a paranormal
twist. John Noble steals the show as the mad
scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop. How he manages
to be sad, kooky, and a little creepy all at once
is fascinating. And I’m always happy to see
e Wire’s Lance Reddick, here as a
Homeland Security agent who seeks
to find out what unexplained phe-
nomena known as the pattern
all add up to - catastrophe or
merely an enormous pain in the
backside? The verdict: still watch-
ing. Airs Tuesdays at 8pm.

Gary Unmarried (CBS): Jay
Mohr stars as recently divorced Gary
Brooks, trying to navigate single life (i.e., get-
ting some) while still dealing with his ex-wife
and their preteen kids. Full of gotcha zingers,
which the network apparently thinks are the
heart and soul of comedy, as they’ve devoted
a whole page of the series’ website to them.
The verdict: One episode was more than
enough. Airs Wednesdays at 7:30pm.

Worst Week (CBS): Kyle Bornheimer
stars as a young fiance who can’t help doing
or saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Kind of like a younger, more frenetic Larry
David {Curb Your Enthusiasm), only a lot
cuddlier. The verdict: might watch again.
Airs Mondays at 7:30pm.

The Mentalist (CBS): Simon Baker’s
charm is wasted in this new procedural fea-
turing another quirky character who can solve
crimes. The verdict: I like Baker, but I think
I’ve seen enough. Airs Tuesdays at 8pm.

As always, stay tuned.

E-mail Belinda Acosta at tveye@austinchronicle.com.

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the triumphant homecoming of the Butthole Surfers at
Stubb’s on Saturday opened with the theme from Chariots
of Fire. Thankfully, that’s where the similarities ended.

The Surfers’ sold-out reunion felt like electroshock
therapy, a 90-minute curative calamity of glorious noise
and plangent psychedelia, triggered by opener “22
Going on 23” and set against a backdrop of strobe
lights and depraved film projections. Performing togeth-
er locally in this incarnation for the first time since
1989, the band appeared in fine form, particularly gui-
tarist Paul Leary and frontman Gibby Haynes, who
contorted his vocal lacerations and stripped out of cus-
tomized T-shirts bearing slogans such as “Hockey
Cunt.” Vintage cuts “Creep in the Cellar” and “Moving
to Florida” burned like acid flashbacks, powered by the
plunging rhythms of drummers Teresa Nervosa (stand-
ing) and King Coffey (sitting) and bassist Jeff Pinkus.

As The New York Times noted on Tuesday, the sev-
enth annual ACL Music Festival “deserves recognition
as a first-tier rock test, with a regional twist.” Weather
throughout the weekend was the finest to date, and
while some were treated on site for what OTR calls
“Zilker Lung,” the grounds held up surprisingly well,
thanks in part to increased recycling. Hand sanitizers
and upgrades to the media area didn’t go without notice
(though quicker access to the latter is necessary), and
the general hospitality in the VIP Grove and throughout
the entire park was impressive to say the least.

Personal highlights included the echoes of Pink Floyd
rippling through Spiritualized s transcendence, the Drive-
By Truckers’ epic “18 Wheels of Love,” and, in what
promised to be their final show for some time, headliner
Foo Fighters’ gargantuan Austin City Limits taping on

ACL Live Shots
Music Listings

Monday night.
Following a
remarkably poi-
gnant set on
Sunday after-
noon, Gillian

Welch and David Rawlings sat in with M. Ward, Jenny
Lewis, and Conor Oberst later that evening at La Zona

Rosa. Speaking of collaborations, Austin’s Tosca String
Quartet assisted the Ivy League pop of Vampire
Weekend but not collaborator David Byrne, who exor-
cized a few ghosts from the bushes at his festival set,
including the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” and
“Houses in Motion,” with help from interpretive dancers. “I
think there should be more of them,” quipped VW’s
Rostam Batmanglij between numbers.

On the local front, White Denim’s compact funk solidi-
fied the figurative meeting point between Gnarls Barkley
and the Raconteurs. Local soul shouter Nakia held his
own onstage with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings,
while Bavu Blakes, donning a Barack Obama mask,
waxed political following an introduction from Mayor Will
Wynn. The Strange Boys and Sound and Jury
Competition winners the Steps both covered classics
twice their ages, blues staple “Baby Please Don’t Go”

and the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” respectively,
and the Octopus Project’s electronic symphony swelled
with the addition of a 20-piece horn section borrowed
from the Austin High School Band. “I thought I was
going to cry,” Octo’s Yvonne Lambert remarked later.

Considering the precedent set by artists such as
Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, and the late
Andy Palacio, the only sticking point this year was the
lack of resounding world and soul music in the WaMu
tent (soon to be J.P. Morgan tent?), with the noted
exception of the Nachito Herrera All Stars,

Antibalas’ Afrobeat explosion, and the Senegalese chill
of Les Freres Guisse. Our suggestions include round-
ing up the likes of Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita,

Vieux Farka Toure, Os Mutantes, Tinariwen, the
reunited Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, and Martha
Reeves, some of which are obviously too big to play
the tent, but then consider that no one reigned more
supreme or played a bigger stage last week than the
King of Bongo, Manu Chao.

“To come here and spend four days, [Austin’s] one of
those cities you say, ‘What a shame I can’t stay longer,”’
enthused the original gypsy punk in Spanish to the
Chronicle on Saturday, lounging poolside at the Radisson
before departing for Mexico City. “We will return.”

Songs in A&E

This Tuesday is the third annual Health
Alliance for Austin Musicians Benefit Day,

wherein nearly 200 businesses, ranging from pre-
senting sponsor Whole Foods Market to
Thundercloud Subs, Half Price Books,
Flamingo Cantina, and, of course, Waterloo
Records, donate 5% of their Oct. 7 sales and/or
make a cash donation to the local nonprofit. The
biggest difference this year is the placement of a
HAAMbassador at each of the 100-plus perfor-
mances taking place throughout the city, collect-
ing donations that will be matched (up to
$10,000) by the Cain Foundation. Here’s OTR’s
abridged itinerary, but for the complete list of
participating businesses and the music schedule,
visit www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org.

HAAM SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS

9am: What Made Milwaukee Famous @

Whole Foods (9607 Research Blvd.)

11am: Chris Gates @ Potbelly Sandwich
Works (5300 S. MoPac)

11:55am: Suzanna Choffel @ City Hall
12:30pm: Brownout @ Whole Foods Cafe
(525 N. Lamar)

3:30pm: Abi Tapia @ Earl Campbell’s Sports Bar at ABIA
5pm: The Derailers @ Waterloo Records

7pm: LZ Love & Lightning Red @ Wyndham Garden Hotel (3401 S. 1-35)
8:30pm: Graham Weber @ Waterloo Ice House (600 N. Lamar)

11pm: Dixie Witch @ Room 710
11:30pm: The Monstas @ Continental Club
12:30am: Dustin Welch @ Momo’s

Field Holler

O Daniel Johnston was the biggest autograph
draw all weekend at ACL’s Waterloo Records
tent. When OTR finally reached the front of the
line, brother Dick Johnston revealed that a movie
deal based on the artist’s life and music had been
finalized with a tentative 2011 release, along with
a signature series for Converse. Johnston joined
the Swell Season on Sunday for its Austin City
Limits taping, performing “Love in Vain” with assis-
tance from the Conspirare Children’s Choir and
closing a cappella “Devil Town.”

O The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is

on speaking terms with former bandmate Jim
Ward and hinted at an At the Drive-In reunion.

O DJ Shadow is

among the crate dig-
gers headed to the
annual Austin
Record Convention
this Saturday and
Sunday, 10am-6pm,
at the Crockett
Events Center (10601 N. Lamar), which will fea-
ture an exhibit from Globe Poster of Baltimore
and author Joe Nick Patoski signing copies of
his Willie Nelson tome. Early-bird shopping ($30)
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DAVID BYRNE

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

God bless David Byrne for stepping onstage
Friday night in white orthopedic shoes. From
set opener “Strange Overtones,” the best
song on his new collaboration with Brian Eno,
the venerable eklektiko led an all-white affair
from head to toe (save for his eyebrows) to
the backup dancers in his stage ensemble.
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today's
“One Fine Day” sounded glazed and medi-
cated on the big stage, setting the tone for an
hourlong set that included a half-dozen danc-
ers flitting about behind him free-form. Then
Byrne threw the crowd some Talking Fleads
with “Once in a Lifetime,” appropriate “Life
During Wartime,” and “Crosseyed & Painless.”
Closer “I Feel My Stuff” featured Byrne and
his dancers opening on a choreographed set-
piece, and for a moment it looked like they
might start snapping into a song from West
Side Story . Thankfully, it only lasted several
minutes, but he managed to take one of
Everything's biggest duds and make some-
thing funky and new out of it. It was a very
“adult” live experience, but Byrne’s paid his
dues and can wear whatever shoes he’s most
comfortable dancing in. No doubt they were
environmentally friendly. - Audra Schroeder

THE MARS VOLTA

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

Ninety minutes and seven songs: That just
about sums up the new Mars Volta, same as
the old Mars Volta. When doomsday music led
the band onstage for its Friday night headlining
spot, core members and At the Drive-In expats
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

entered on a cloud of self-dedicated hero
worship. With his pants ever tighter and hair
down to here, Bixler-Zavala emulated Robert
Plant more than he would probably admit to,
wailing bansheelike over Rodriguez-Lopez’s
mind-numbing guitar solos. As those solos con-
tinued, songs lengthened. Sticking primarily to
this year’s The Bedlam in Goliath, the El Paso
natives slurred through “Goliath,” “Viscera
Eyes,” and “Wax Simulacra” before the curi-
ous began filing either out or across the park
to visit Manu Chao. It was a hot mess, mixing
Zeppelin with Spinal Tap’s “Jazz Odyssey.” The
Mars Volta has become an insanely loud (not
bad), wanky (really bad), jam band (detestable)
without the patchouli oil, its sound imitating a
cat expelling a hair ball on a helicopter going
south. Time to stop proving technicality and
find the center once again. - Darcie Stevens

RYAN BINGHAM

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

While West Texas legends Joe Ely and Terry
Allen sing praise for Austin’s Ryan Bingham,
his 2007 Lost Highway debut, Mescalito,
offered only a smidgen to distinguish him from
others in the Red Dirt scene. Forty minutes
in front of an ample crowd made up for it,
Bingham and his trio of Dead Horses impress-
ing with a set that leaned heavily on Scorchers
roar and Southern rock stomp. The singer-
songwriter’s straw hat and beard added years
to his youth, while his scratchy vocals veered
closer to Waitsian than on disc. Mid-set, Doug
Moreland joined in with his fiddle, bringing the
music closer to traditional country, though it
wasn’t until closing twofer “Sunshine” and
radio hit “Bread and Water” that Bingham
pulled out his slide guitar chops. Matching
those of guitarist Corby Schaub, Bingham
fueled the band into overdrive, a move that left
the assembled howling for more. - Jim Caligiuri

ANTIBALAS

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

Afrobeat is deeply political music, and the
current political climate has lit a fire under
Antibalas. The 12-man Brooklyn army relished
the irony of playing the WaMu tent the same
day the banking giant went belly up, crafting a
cover of Bob Marley’s “Rat Race” for the occa-
sion and dedicating “War Hero” to all defunct
financial institutions. “We need to get our priori-

ACL often seems like an endless mass of shirtless white dudes, but the crowd in front
of the AT&T stage waiting for Manu Chao’s headlining performance had a distinctly inter-
national feel. Preceded by soccer stadium chants of “Ole, ole, ole” and punctuated by
an encore tribute to Argentine futbolista Diego Maradona, the 90-minute pachanga wed
punk rock and reggae in a blissful union not seen since rude boys ran roughshod over
London. The spastic paranoia of last year’s La Radiolina sparked another rare stateside
appearance by the Parisian-born Spaniard and his sixpiece guerilla unit, with punk grunts
of “Oi, oi, oi” bumping into the distinctly Marley woe-yo-yo-yo’s of “Mr. Bobby.” Immigrant
anthems “Clandestine” and “Welcome to Tijuana” boiled over with flamenco guitar, the
nylon strings of the tattered acoustic axe damn near snapping on “Desaparecido” before
a single mariachi trumpet tempered the blaze. Holding court at the exact moment of the
presidential debate, Manu Chao aimed the scathing “Politik Kills” at George Bush while
his shouts of “Next station is hope!” rang like a prediction. By the time it was “Rainin
in Paradize,” clenched fists dotted the sky from Lamar to MoPac. The band was genu-
inely moved by the warm reception during its four-day, three-show stint in Austin. “We
will always come back to Austin,” promised the tiny trilingual troubadour. “Thank you so
much for the hospitality.” - Thomas Fawcett

ties straight,” pleaded group founder and Texas
transplant Martin Perna, calling for Gulf Coast
hurricane victims to supersede Wall Street
executives in any taxpayer bailout. Violent
horn stabs punched through dense layers of
percussion as saxman Stuart Bogie screamed
the names of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld to
a deafening chorus of “Indictment!” If you’re
thinking a lecture doesn’t make for a fun-
filled festival, no band laid heavier hitting funk
grooves this weekend. If only canvassing for
votes were such a blast. - Thomas Fawcett

YEASAYER

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

Though possessed frontman Chris
Keating plays the public face of Yeasayer,
the Brooklyn quartet swayed to the spells
of drummer Luke Fasano’s onslaught Friday

afternoon. Behind a kit mixing traditional
kick/snare with synth pads slamming to the
year “2080,” Fasano popped melodic over
’Sayer’s atmospheric groove, rhythm and lead
kept alive on a set of skins. Droning harmon-
ic, the sleeveless ones emerged out of the
“Red Cave” following Keating’s charging “so
many people I deeply care for” before picking
up a whirlwind of hum, synth-man/guitarist
Anand Wilder’s fuzz-fueled lead towering the
paced progression of “No Need to Worry.”

All the while, Keating gyrated dramatic. His
hands reached skyward and bottomed out,
cueing instrumental whirs to leave Fasano
the space usually reserved for a stringer. The
rattle and hum was relentless, the man in the
back as dynamic as the one in the front.

- Chase Hoffberger
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

In the first monster-crowd set of the
fest, Vampire Weekend bounded onstage
looking so well-scrubbed it was tempting
to check for purity rings to make sure
they weren’t the Jonas Brothers. The lilt
of “Mansard Roof” vanquished all doubts,
however, and the band’s quirky Afro-pop
on “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” and
“A-Punk” warmed in the heat of the mid-
day sun. The unexpected appearance of
Austin’s Tosca String Quartet gave “M79”
and the new “Kids Don’t Stand a Chance”
a sterling touch, but choosing the Talking
Headsy “Oxford Comma” and “Walcott”
for the finale guaranteed them 15 min-
utes of good press. Nevermind that VW
is teased for their Paul Simon lite: The
four have laid claim to a bright, heartfelt
sound that’s refreshing in a suddenly
unsure future. - Margaret Moser

THE SWELL SEASON

Friday, Sept. 26, Zilker Park

With Irish flags waving salute against the sun-
set backdrop, Glen Hansard opened the Swell
Season’s set with the rousing chorus of “People
Get Ready” from the Frames’ 2007 LP The Cost,
which with the surging violin and drums suggested
that Hansard’s simply shifted his band in name
thanks to the remarkable success of last year’s
film Once. Hansard has always proven an excep-
tional vocalist, even if predictable in his songs’
slow crescendos, and “When Your Mind’s Made
Up” and “Go With Happiness” were beautifully and
emotionally wrought. Marketa Irglova’s contribu-
tions unfortunately fell mostly to the background,
though her lead on “If You Want Me” brought a
surge of cheers, and duets such as “Falling Slowly”
and “The Moon” collapsed the immense festival
space into Hansard and Irglova’s intimate interplay.
Hansard delivered a yelping solo version of Van
Morrison’s “Astral Weeks,” furiously shredding his
battered acoustic guitar, but closer “Fitzcarraldo”
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Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

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a thousand graying fanboys held their breath in the hopes that a little Zeppelin magic
might hold sway after the sun went down Saturday. Beneath the blue stage lights, the
old lion, locks a-flowing to match those of golden-haired bluegrass chanteuse Alison
Krauss, kicked the Raising Sand revue into gear for a whole new demographic. It only
took three songs to reach the first Zep hit, “Black Dog.” Between the banjo lead-in and
Krauss’ atmospheric vocals, it was clear this pair digs a new vernacular based in old
Appalachian traditions. Plant held his histrionics in check until he let loose later with
his old band’s “Black Country Woman.” Krauss demonstrated herself a fine match for
Plant with the two alternating on backing harmonies, her virtuosity sparking a little more
steel at times than the old man’s rusty pipes. They dug into Plant’s solo catalog for a
mesmerizing version of “In the Mood.” The band sounded great with T Bone Burnett
and Buddy Miller offering sizzling guitar work, the headliners disappearing long enough
for the former to bust out a head-scratcher: the droning “Earlier Bagdhad (the Bounce)”
off his The True False Identity. Plant and Krauss returned, finishing out the set with a
dynamite triple, “Nothin’” by Townes Van Zandt, a gorgeous “Battle of Evermore,” and a
revved up, knowing version of the Everly Brothers’ “Gone, Gone, Gone” off Raising Sand.

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JOHN FOGERTY

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

With his songs ingrained in anyone lis-
tening to pop music over the last 40 years,
John Fogerty could easily play his tunes the
way they’re remembered. Instead, his set
list made it apparent he’s trying to reinvent
himself to keep things interesting for all
involved. One thing’s for sure: Creedence
Clearwater Revival never sounded as big
as what Fogerty brought to Saturday’s
stage. Drummer Kenny Aronoff was par-
tially responsible for that, as were the four
guitars out in front of him. While heavy
on Creedence, the set featured a couple
of tunes from Fogerty’s recent Revival,
while throwing in a couple of deep cuts,
including “Midnight Special” and “Keep
on Chooglin’.” By closing the night with
abbreviated takes on “Fortunate Son” and
“Proud Mary,” the performance felt rushed,
and though it would have been nice if he’d
gone on for another hour or two, no one
left feeling cheated. - Jim Caligiuri

FLEET FOXES

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

“We’re not really a festival band,” offered
Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold from
the stage, but the Seattle quintet aptly dem-
onstrated it was, in fact, worthy of the label.
The group’s beatific harmonies rose simul-
taneously haunting and spiritually dazzling
in the early afternoon sun, “Sun It Rises”
and “Sun Giant” bursting forth in a dulcet
glow. With Skyler Skjelset bowing his gui-
tar through “Drops in the River,” Pecknold
unleashed his gentle, high, lonesome wail,
the familiar touches of My Morning Jacket

(“English Flouse”) and even Band
of Florses (“Ragged Wood”) sug-
gesting the promise behind Fleet
Foxes’ sound, while “Mykonos”
tilted toward Neil Young. The
band’s banter with the crowd
was amusingly informal, as was
Pecknold’s flannel commitment to
their Northwest image despite the
heat, but the harmonies of “Quiet
Flouses,” Pecknold’s solo turn on
“Oliver James,” and closer “Blue
Ridge Mountains” were as sub-
lime as they are on album.

- Doug Freeman

BECK Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

As the UT Tower glowed orange in the distance, Beck delivered a solid, if not
spectacular, set Saturday night with all the well-paced underpinnings of a Vegas
showroom revue. Armed with a chameleon’s lair of hits, he took the unorthodox
step of opening with “Loser.” The tombstone inscription curried energy that carried
forward into the tribal groove of “Nausea” and the New Wave vibe of “Timebomb.”
Reimagined versions of “Nicotine & Gravy” and “Mixed Bizness” from 1999’s Midnite
Vultures were intriguing but lacked the left-handed, party-up flavor of their studio pre-
decessors. By contrast, the title track from this year’s Modern Guilt packed nervous
urgency buried on the album. At midset, Beck and his fourpiece band grabbed hand-
held synth implements to deconstruct “Black Tambourine” and “Hell Yes” house-
party style. Following elegiac readings of “The Golden Age” and “Lost Cause” from
2002’s Sea Change, Beck headed for the garage with Bob Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin
Pill-Box Flat.” “Where It’s At” and “E-Pro” ended the 70-minute set strong but left the
torqued-up audience wanting for an encore that never came. - Greg Beets

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SPIRITUALIZED

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

Second chance is one phrase that came
to mind watching Jason Pierce as the sun set
Saturday evening. When he walked onstage
and began strumming the first couple of bars
of “Amazing Grace,” there was a warm, fuzzy
feeling this wasn’t going to be the orchestral,
graceful Spiritualized that characterizes his lat-
est, Songs in A&E. This was Pierce resurrected,
back from near-death, and he used that
renewed energy and faith to channel his entire
catalog. Backed by a quartet and two backup
singers, A&E’ s “Soul on Fire” and “You Lie You
Cheat” were reverent and clean, as opposed
to the more fervent psych tracks in the set: He
went all the way back to 1992’s Spiritualized
debut Lazer Guided Melodies and even further
back with a choice rendition of Spacemen 3’s
“Walking With Jesus.” As the dust settled in a
purple-orange haze across the park, the band
tore into a sublime “Come Together,” from
Spiritualized’s 1997 LP Ladies and Gentlemen
We Are Floating in Space, and it was the per-
fect closer for those in the crowd who were
still conscious. The sound guy did Pierce right,
and it was a perfect early-evening communion
for true fans. - Audra Schroeder

LES FRERES GUISSE

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

It’s a shame that three brothers from
Senegal should travel so far to be sidelined
in a tent while ubiquitous indie rock kids held
the main stage, but for Les Freres Guisse,
there was no issue that could not be over-

come - not even the brief blare of feedback
- with sweet harmonies, acoustic guitars,
and a faith that music and hope go hand in
hand. “People hear this next song and say
it’s a blues music,” said Djiby Guisse, intro-
ducing a Sahelian tune that recalled the late
AN Farka Toure. “We tell them it is not blues
music; it is our music.” Brother Aliou Guissse
on percussion kept everything and everybody
moving right along. Families danced up front
and chanted along when the brothers invoked
Nelson Mandela. Indeed, the blues were a
long way off. - Dan Oko

ERYKAH BADU

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

As the Okayplayer culture’s leading lady,
Erykah Badu spent the greater part of this
decade in a position without boundaries.

She’s earned tenure in the neo-soul world.

As such, the 37-year-old Dallasite saw it fit to
stroll onstage to Lil’ Wayne’s “A Milli” preg-
nant in 5-inch heels, blown-out hair coiffed
and looped in the front, talking about how
“[her] ass and legs have gotten big” before
she and her nine-deep band boarded the New
Amerykah , Part One: 4th World War soul train.
She tapped on a drum box between tracks,
lectured the crowd on the finer points of occu-
pancy, hollered at My Morning Jacket, cut off
“Bag Lady” in favor of “the song that make
my back go like this” (pinning her shoulders
back before diving into “Tyrone”), and funked
out “On & On.” The analog girl in the digital
world does as she pleases; we’re just lucky
enough to enjoy it. - Chase Hoffberger

THE BLACK KEYS

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

That Patrick Carney really beats the crap out
of those skins. Problem is no one could hear
the rampant kick drum and incessant crash
hits the Akron, Ohio, man delivered until a
banjo-less “Psychotic Girl” offered a taste of
Attack & Release sans Danger Mouse’s hand
and brought the clamor to unforgiving levels.
When they’re cranking, it’s fury, guitarist Dan
Auerbach ripping slop-rock purity through
high-actioned fret boards on Rubber Factory’s
“Stack Shot Billy.” Only for a moment did

Auerbach put the clamps on Carney, calling
for a fuzz-soaked cover of Captain Beefheart’s
beat-up “I’m Glad,” brought to a boil on quarter-
note steps on the kick, before closing on A-side
decibel high-marks “Strange Times” and “I Got
Mine.” The thrashing guitars, the raucous drum
pop, it will always emerge victorious. There’s no
sense in keeping the Black Keys from dropping
the hammer. - Chase Hoffberger

ROKY ERICKSON
& THE EXPLOSIVES

Saturday, Sept. 27, Zilker Park

Putting the guitar back in Roky Erickson’s
hands is a brilliant move, because when the
local legend wraps his hands around a Gibson,
he’s in charge of his music. Opening with the
jaw-snapping “Cold Night for Alligators” and
whipping with confidence into a chrome-plated
“Don’t Shake Me Lucifer,” the 13th Floor
Elevators singer has earned the right to move
beyond platitudes for his much-documented
comeback, but if there’s more credit to
share for Erickson’s return, it belongs to the
Explosives, the backing trio that’s played with
the reclusive rock star longer than anyone. The
dynamic rhythm section of master drummer
Freddie Krc and bassist Chris Johnson com-
bined with guitarist Cam King trading leads with
Erickson gave the music an extraordinary ener-
gy, jolting the audience with a closing trifecta of
“Starry Eyes,” “Two Headed Dog,” and “You’re
Gonna Miss Me.” Divine. - Margaret Moser

AGAINST ME!

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

Tom Gabel of Against Me! is a self-made
star with a singular, recognizable songwriting
style and a commanding performer by any
standard. His rhythm section, on the other
hand, seems to be having sudden problems
with by-the-numbers punk. It’s like watch-
ing two different bands at once - as if Joe
Strummer were backed by 88 Fingers Louie.

Tegan Quinn’s guest appearance on “Borne
on the FM Waves of the Heart” gave the show
a temporary boost, but for the most part, the
band dragged and generally played badly. That
didn’t keep them from bouncing around the
stage, mugging and posing as if every note
was the best ever played by a rock band.
Perhaps they’re just making the best of a bad
situation, but to see Gabel’s relentlessly mean-
ingful music performed with such an emphasis
on style over substance is sad. - Daniel Mee

WHITE DENIM

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

Despite a daunting slot opposite the
Raconteurs and Gnarls Barkley, White Denim
unleashed electric testimony on Sunday after-
noon as to why they’re Austin’s band of the
moment. Empowered but not encumbered by
the spastic time changes of math rock, the
trio’s songs skitter about with unpredictable
aplomb, somehow landing feet first every time.
But White Denim goes way beyond post-punk
start/stop prowess, condensing the titanic,
blues-based immolations of the Who and Led
Zeppelin into hyper-caffeinated, two-minute
groundbursts. Vocalist/guitarist James Petralli
channeled the soulful spirit of MC5 vocalist
Rob Tyner on “All You Really Have to Do” and
“Paint Silver Gold,” bringing a heady dose of
universal magnetism to a style of music that
tends to self-relegate. The respectable roar of
approval that followed the set ensured dozens
of newly minted fans. - Greg Beets

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BAND OF HORSES

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

If Band of Horses can be seen as a reincar-
nation of the Band, that makes Ben Bridwell
Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson rolled into
one. Meanwhile, it appears that Bridwell has
found his Richard Manuel in the band’s new
keyboardist, Ryan Monroe, who contributed
plenty of energy to this stellar sunset per-
formance. Relying heavily on tracks from the
recent Cease to Begin, the brothers in arms
managed to wrap up tight harmonies and kick
out a few piano jams, adding color and musi-
cal strength to BOH’s standard three-guitar
onslaught. The crowd roared along to early
hits such as “The Great Salt Lake” and an
astounding version of “The Funeral.” Smelling
the barn, apparently, the Horses rode a
Pentecostal vibe through Bridwell’s soulful
cover of Them Two’s “Am I a Good Man?”

- Dan Oko

GILLIAN WELCH

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

“Everybody loves a chick with a banjo,”
laughed Gillian Welch as she strapped on the
instrument for the bluesy “My First Lover,”
and though the Americana stalwart delivered
a mesmerizing and mellow set, it was guitar-
ist David Rawlings who stole the show. The
duo worked through a generous, if haphaz-
ardly organized, portion of her catalog, from
Revival’ s “Orphan Girl” to Soul Journey’s “Look
at Miss Ohio,” with Rawlings’ immaculate
picking given free reign throughout, mimicking

Willie Nelson on “I’m Not Afraid to Die” and
distinguishing impressive solos on “I Want to
Sing That Rock and Roll” and the extended
jam of “Revelator.” The pair’s harmonies
pitched perfectly together on the gorgeous,
unreleased, slow-burn ballad “Throw Me a
Rope,” but it was Alison Krauss joining for
the a cappella “Didn’t Leave Nobody but the
Baby” reprise from 0 Brother , Where Art Thou?
that supplied the set’s surprise highlight.

- Doug Freeman

ABIGAIL WASHBURN & THE
SPARROW QUARTET

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

Sunday afternoon got off to a glorious start.
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet -
Bela Fleck, banjo; Casey Driessen, fiddle; and
Ben Sollee, cello - use ancient instruments,
but their fusion of traditional folk, bluegrass,
classical, and music from China moves for-
ward at every turn. Washburn’s vocals were
clear and distinctive whether torching it up on
“Sugar & Pie” or making it jazzy on Blind Willie
Johnson’s “Nobody’s Fault But Mine.” The
majority of the crowd was there to see Fleck’s
mastery, and he didn’t disappoint in a solo
turn. Driessen and Sollee were equally impres-
sive. The interplay between the four, including
Washburn’s banjo, was outstanding, espe-
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Rigby.” Washburn sang a couple of songs
in Chinese, which didn’t seem out of place,
giving the listener a sense that the Sparrow
Quartet could play just about anything it set
its collective mind to with ease.

- Jim Caligiuri

OKKERVIL RIVER

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

Nine years ago, absolutely no one, not even
bandleader Will Sheff, would have predicted
that Okkervil River would be where it is today.
Sheff may be the only original member left
from those days, but his vision - his songs -
are the reason thousands sang and danced to
a buoyant set that, no matter what the lyrics
were really getting at, offered boundless joy.
Concentrating on tunes from the local band’s

FOO FIGHTERS

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

Dave Grohl wanted to play for a good long while Sunday night. “Till they call the cops
on us!” he howled upon first addressing the crowd. “All My Life” already seared; “Times
Like These” ripped; “Learn to Fly” struck. The former Nirvana drummer wears it on
his sleeve, all the joy and excitement that accompanies 13 years on the road as the
Foos. He loves playing in a band - needs it almost - and with drummer Taylor Hawkins,
bassist Nate Mendel, guitarist Chris Shiflett, and company following suit, Virginia’s
shag-haired rock revivalist captained a ship built to bring a tired, beaten, but never
broken crowd home after three days spent at full tilt. Not all the attention shot directly
toward the dark-haired wielder of that Gibson DG-335. Violinist Jessy Greene (once of
the Geraldine Fibbers) led a country rock shuffle, and Drew Hester, the “best triangle
soloist in the history of the world,” lived up to the title. Hawkins handled vox duties on
“Cold Day in the Sun” as Grohl, ever the enthusiast, stepped aside in power stance,
head banging and hair flying before remaining alone on stage for an improbable cut of
“Everlong.” Two high-octane set closers, a stretched out “Monkey Wrench” and tight
counterpart “The Pretender,” finished up early, leaving time for three-part encore “Big
Me,” “Aurora,” and “Best of You.” Grohl thanked Austin mercilessly, but thanks go to
the Foo Fighters. It’s they who swept through town like a firestorm, intent on shutting
down ACL 2008 and leaving no doubt the deed was done by a group of screamin’, spit-
tin’, cussin’ rock stars. - Chase Hoffberger

most recent discs, 2007’s The Stage
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a surprise cameo by former guitarist
Brian Cassidy, was as dynamic and
intense as any group playing the
festival. Sheff bounced from one end
of the stage to the other, yelping his
lyrics, magnetic and ecstatic, his
colossal pop hooks full to bursting.

The furious “Unless It Kicks” ended
the performance with a frenzied clap-
along, a high point of the weekend for
all involved. -Jim Caligiuri

GNARLS BARKLEY

Sunday, Sept. 28, Zilker Park

In a moment reminiscent of ACL Fest No.

1 when Al Green sang in the same spot, the
massive Cee-Lo faced the red setting sun
and declared, “It’s a beautiful day in Texas.”
Danger Mouse bent his blue-tuxedoed frame
over and opened fire on their third song,
“Gone Daddy Gone,” a wickedly faithful cover
of the Violent Femmes fave. The duo known
collectively as Gnarls Barkley is a master of

modern soul (and brilliant videos) and deliv-
ered its promise with electrifying performances
of songs such as “Blind Mary,” “Going On,”
and “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul.” “You’re
not tired of that song yet?” “No!” they roared,
still high on the rush of transcendent 2006 hit
“Crazy.” “Me either,” grinned Cee-Lo. If what
you want at an outdoor festival is that one joy-
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a single song, there it was in black and white.
And how sweet it is. - Margaret Moser

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In July, Abbie Hawkins, 19, a hotel receptionist in Norwich, England, said
she found a baby bat nestled inside the padded bra she had been wearing
for several hours. “When I was driving to work, I felt a slight vibration, but I
thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket,” she told The Daily
Telegraph. Hawkins had fetched the bra off of a clothesline that morning,
where it had been hanging overnight. First reaction: “I thought how mean I
was for disturbing it.”

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a cool grandmother.” The Hallandale Beach,
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CD ( Who's Your Granny?), who does occasion-
al playdates, where she shows up in hockey
jersey, jewels, sunglasses, and baseball cap.
Sample rap: “I can bring the noise better
than P-Diddy/I am older and wiser, I ain’t a
disguiser/l am condo commando in a high-
riser/Who’s your granny?” Also, “Move over,
Trick-Daddy, ’cause this is my town/I gotta
shuffleboard posse, and we’re known to get
down.” Actually, conceded Jenna to the South
Florida Sun-Sentinel in September,
“Sometimes it’s embarrassing.”

FINE POINTS OF THE LAW

Joey Bergamine, 19, who is preparing for
a retrial in Fayetteville, N.C., on a DUI charge
stemming from a July 2007 incident, will
argue that he should have been advised of
his right to have a lawyer present when his
father kicked open his bedroom door hours
after the incident to help police officers who
had come to question him. Joey’s father is
the police chief of Fayetteville, and Joey’s
lawyer said entering a locked room, as well
as the subsequent interrogation, constituted
“police” action and not “parental” action,
and since his dad failed to “Mirandize” him,
the charge should be dismissed.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

“In many ways,” reported the Los Angeles
Times in August, the Torajans of Indonesia’s
Sulawesi Island “spend a lifetime preparing
for their demise,” in that the most glorious
highlight of their existence appears to be
planning the elaborate celebration of the
end of it. In fact, taking one’s last breath is
only the beginning of a lengthy tribute, such
as the one for Toraja’s last king, who died
in 2003 but has not been put away yet,
pending completion of the necessary ritual
animal sacrifices. (In the interim, the
deceased is considered more “sick” than
“dead.”) Said one local (“cheerfully,”
according to the Times), “Torajans! [We] live
to die!”

About 250,000 women in the southern
India states of Karnataka and Maharashtra
are self-described “elite” sex workers whose
impoverished or devoutly pious parents
“dedicated” them as children to the Hindu
goddess Yellamma, according to an August
dispatch in The New Yorker. Despite the
state’s outlawing the practice in 1982, the
women’s fate as “devadasis” remains an
attractive alternative to ordinary marriage
(which would usually be to poor and abusive
men) and provides a degree of status, in
that they dress nicely and can inherit family
property, while street prostitutes cannot.
However, devadasis still fall victim to the
region’s rampant HIV rate.

Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, lacks a “run-
ning of the bulls” tradition, but since 1620,
it has included in its annual El Colacho festi-
val a “leaping over the babies.” In late May,
the town’s infants are laid on mattresses in
the village square, and people in red-and-yel-
low devil costumes jump over them and keep
running, to symbolize the vanquishing of
demons from their lives.

LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES

Toward a More Accessible Anglican
Church: 1) In August, Birmingham Cathedral
announced plans to open a series of wine
bars in London, as (according to an official)
one of the “alternative ways” of engaging
nonchurchgoers. 2) The new church curate
in Dursley, Gloucestershire, is the Rev. Skye
Denno, 29, a married mother of two, whose
downtime is spent in biker boots, hot
pants, a dog collar, and her six piercings,
listening to the Sex Pistols. Said she: “I
don’t do it to be difficult. [I] think it makes
me more approachable.”

THE CONTINUING CRISIS

The Nebraska Legislature’s new “safe
haven” law for unwanted babies, like other
states’ laws, allows them to be dropped off
anonymously at hospitals to discourage abor-
tions (and neglect by unfit parents). However,
unlike other states’ laws, Nebraska’s applies
not just to infants but “minors,” because,
said Sen. Tom White, “All children deserve
our protection.” In September, the first two
noninfants were abandoned, as exasperated
parents gave up on rebellious sons aged 11
and 15, and critics say the law could apply
to those up to age 19.

In August, the U.S. Department of
Transportation unveiled new rules for train and
bus drivers returning to work from drug-use
suspensions. They must now be tested first by
a strip search to detect devices for cheating
(such as artificial penises), and if none is
found, they may redress themselves, but a
monitor must still “directly watch the urine as
it goes from the employee’s body into the col-
lection container.” Not surprisingly, several
unions have challenged the rule in court.

THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN
COMMUNITY

Barbie’s Not Just a Girls’ Obsession:

1) Robert Martin, 47, was arrested in Cape
May, N.J., in July after a state police officer
spotted an array of pornographic magazines
in his car in a public parking lot, along with
a serving platter resting on his dashboard,
piled with women’s underwear, and a collec-
tion of naked Barbie dolls lined up on the
seat. 2) Christopher Sullivan, 43, was arrest-
ed in Oshkosh, Wis., in August as the per-
son who allegedly sent his upstairs neigh-
bors threatening packages, including a
Polaroid photo of three naked Barbie dolls
with their heads cut off. He told police he
was angry that the couple was too loud
when they had sex.

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THURSDAY

CAMP CAMP SAYS BOO Back into the
swing of things, our favorite Camp counsel-
ors wanna spook ya. This month’s theme: monsters.
So scary, it’s darling. Get there early to get your
10-15 minutes of goosebumping. Bouldin Creek
Coffeehouse & Cafe , 1501 S. First, 416-1601. Free.
campcampqueers@gmail.com.

CENTER FOR INQUIRY LECTURE Chris Kirk of UT’s
Department of Anthropology drops some science
concerning the evolution of the primate eye. Damn,
dirty, near-sighted apes! 7pm. Old Quarry Branch
Library, 7051 Village Center Dr., 345-4435. Free.
www.centerforinquiry.net/austin.

CONVERSATION CAFE Before the National
Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation begins
tomorrow, why not prep yourself with this meeting
of minds and words? Learn to improve your dialogu-
ing skills with a seminar, and then get down to
it. 6:15-9pm. Renaissance Hotel, 9721 Arboretum,
343-2626. Free, www.conversationcafe.org.

^ DIVA CLEAN SWEEP WITH AMANDA
MCBROOM On the heels of a successful visit with
Elaine Stritch, Austin Cabaret Theatre shines the
good silver for Amanda McBroom. As in, The Rose. As
in, the one who wrote it and performs it like no one.
Two nights! Mansion at Judges’ Hill, 1900 Rio Grande ,
453-ACTS. $39. www.austincabaret.blogspot.com.

lb FAMILY MUSIC MELTDOWN One price and five
of Austin’s best bands equals an evening of rockin’
fun for young and old. If Austin City Limits hasn’t
exhausted the kiddies, Joe McDermott, Super Pal
Universe, and more will finish the job. 5-9pm. Ruta
Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. $5
(babies free), www.sparetherock.com.

MEET THE CANDIDATE Larry Joe Doherty,

Democratic candidate for the 10th Congressional
District of Texas, is looking to get elected. Come
out, meet him, and see if he can swing your vote.
5:30-7:30pm. Headliners Club, Bank One Tower
#2100, 479-8080.

VEEP DEBATE WATCH PARTY Biden
and Palin go head to head, and you get
to watch. Expect Palin bashing from your
hosts, the Travis County Democrats.

6-9:30pm. Scholz Garten, 1607 San
Jacinto, 474-1958.

^ WILD(E) ABOUT MUSICAL THEATRE? Tonight is
Zach’s first LGBT Wilde Party of the new season, and
the show is Caroline, or Change, set in early-Sixties
Lake Charles, La. Wilde season tickets are available
now. 6:45pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey ; 476-0541.
info@zachtheatre.org, www.zachtheatre.org.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)
Berkeley in the '60s @ CAL 100 (on the UT cam-
pus), 7pm

Hell on Wheels @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

this week’s
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FRIDAY

BILL OF RIGHTS DINNER The Texas Civil
Rights Project honors those who strive
for human rights while raising funds for low-income
Texans. The evening’s theme is civil rights in the arts
with a performance by Broadway star and honoree
Vinie Burrows and a political cartoon display by
Pulitzer Prize winner Ben Sargent. Music from Paul
Green School of Rock students and the Austin Jazz
Workshop makes sure the volume doesn’t get turned
down. 6:30pm. UT Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto,
542-9744. $125. www.texascivilrightsproject.org.

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT FESTIVAL This multidis
ciplined and multivenued festival offers audiences
the wide range of African-American voices in the arts.
Expect theatre, dance, opera, and hip-hop performances
throughout the festival. Check www.bamaustin.org for a
complete schedule. Oct. 3-14. 474-LONG. $15 individual
event, $50 festival pass.

BURLESQUE THE VOTE Bipartisanship never looked
so good. Proceeds from this night of swinging tas-
sels goes to the ACLU of Austin. 9pm. Antone's, 213
W. Fifth, 320-8424. $15, standing; $30, seated.

www.antones.net.

EXPO CONSERVATION BANQUET The Texas Parks
& Wildlife Department hosts this party honoring
individuals and businesses that are doing their part
to consume less. Silent and live auctions bring some
excitement to the proceedings. 6-10pm. Hyatt Lost
Pines Resort & Spa, 575 Hyatt Lost Pines Rd., Lost
Pines, 214/720-1478. $150.

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE ASSEMBLY Celebrate
the spirit of speaking up and acting out according to
one’s conscience at this three-day confer-
ence. Workshops, lectures, movie screen-
ings, photo exhibits, and more complete
the experience, with the third day taking
the message outdoors to Wooldridge Park
(900 Guadalupe ) for prayers and a picnic.
Fri.-Sun., Oct. 3-5. Central Presbyterian
Church, 200 E. Eighth, 926-3121. $40 ($30, advance),
$15 students, www.mennochurch.org/nathfc.

GETTING TAKS ON TRACK Educators, law-makers,
and just your average interested parties come togeth-
er to discuss alternatives to the model of school
accountability based on the TAKS test. l-4pm. First
United Methodist Church, 1201 Lavaca, 478-5684.

HURRICANE IKE FUNDRAISER A DJ and food
awaits those who bring items for the Capital Area
Food Bank. 6-9pm. Molotov Lounge , 719 W. Sixth,
499-0600. Free, www.360taboo.com.

^ KILLING YOU SOFTLY WITH OUR SONGS This
naughty naughty Midnight Cabaret kicks off Capital City
Men’s Chorus’ 20th (whoa!) season. VIP tickets avail-
able. VIP means: champagne, hors d’oeuvres, and front
table seating. Oct. 3 & 4, 9pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd.,
477-SING. $20 ($35, VIP), www.ccmcaustin.org.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIALOGUE &
DELIBERATION Feel like your ideas aren’t getting
across to your intended audience? This collection of
workshops and discussions aims to make communi-
cation easier. Even tricky conversations of the inter-
generational or interpartisan variety will be covered.
By the end, you’ll be a regular Dr. Doolittle, except
with people instead of animals. Fri.-Sat., Oct. 3-5.
Renaissance Hotel, 9721 Arboretum, 343-2626. $440
full-conference, www.ncdd.org/ncdd2008.

OKTOBERFEST Just like everyone’s Irish on St.
Patrick’s, everyone is German during Oktoberfest.
Fredericksburg goes all-out with food, beer, polka con-
tests, and heritage, and goes even further with music
on three stages, a slew of vendors, and a kinderpark.
Fri.-Sun ., Oct. 3-5. Downtown Marktplatz, 100 W. Main
St., Fredericksburg, 830/997-4810. $6 ($1, children).
www.oktoberfestinfbg.com .

lb TEENS TURNING GREEN LAUNCH PARTY

Nonprofit Teens for Safe Cosmetics launches
this new line of eco-friendly body-care products.
Minimakeovers, a natural-cotton fashion show, music,
and refreshments make it even more teen-friendly.
Who would have guessed a natural look would come
into style? 4-7 pm. Whole Foods Market, 525 N. Lamar,
476-1206. Free, www.wholefoodsmarket.com.

^ THANK GOODNESS I’M Bl The ambisexter-
ous happy hour that gathers on the first and third
Fridays of every month. Look for the telltale bandan-
nas! 7pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth,
370-9573. www.main.org/binetaustin.

lb YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

Second Youth Family Theatre presents this Peanuts-
based classic in all its musical exuberance. Oct.

3-19. Thu.-Fri ., 7pm; Sat., 11am; Sun., 2pm. Dougherty
Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 397-1468. $15
($8, ages 1-12; free, infants).

YWAF BENEFIT CONCERT RSVP online, and
attend this benefit for the Young Women’s Alliance
Foundation. Enjoy live music by Jets Under Fire and
drinks sponsored by Bacardi. Pretty much your aver-
age Friday night, except your booze money goes to
a good cause. 8:30pm. The Belmont, 305 W. Sixth,
457-0300. $20. www.youngwomensalliance.org.

ZILKER BACKYARD CONCERT Local musicians
Patricia Vonne, the Onion Creek Crawdaddies,
and more get things cooking as the temperature
cools. The proceeds go to Zilker Elementary’s Arts
in Education program. 6-10pm. 1900 Bluebonnet,
414-2327. $10, adults; $5, teens; $2, kids.

^ DIVA CLEAN SWEEP WITH AMANDA
MCBROOM (See Thursday 10/2.)

ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)

Art on 5th, Mexic-Arte Museum

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)

U2 3D @ IMAX Theatre, 9pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Afrissippi Flamingo Cantina
Ra Ra Riot The Parish

Coma in Algiers, Elvis Scoot Inn & Bier Garten

Low Line Caller CD Release Mohawk

SATURDAY

lb ANNE FONTAINE reads from and
signs her children’s book Ocho Loved
Flowers. Representatives from the Humane
Society will also be on hand. 2pm. Barnes & Noble
Arboretum , 10000 Research #158, 418-8985.

ART CLOSING BENEFIT This is the last day of the
“I’m Watching My Stories” exhibit and features DJs
and B-boy battles. Bring food and cash donations for
the Capital Area Food Bank and the American Red
Cross. Come dressed in red to show your support.
8pm-12mid. Gallery Lombardi , 602-A W. Seventh,
481-1088. Free, www.gallerylombardi.com.

ASIAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM Hosted
by the Austin Asian-American Chamber of Commerce,
this symposium tackles regional capital improve-
ment projects. If you’re not too busy attacking the big
issues, feel free to schmooze and network at any of
the keynotes, vendor exhibits, or afterparties. 7:30am-
4pm. Hyatt Regency Austin, 208 Barton Springs Rd.,
477-1234. $125-300. www.austinaacc.org.

AUSTIN RECORD CONVENTION Feed your vinyl fetish.
Sal-Sun., Oct. 4-5, 10am-6pm. Crockett Events Center,
10601 N. Lamar, 288-7288. $5. www.austinrecords.com.

BASTROP MUSICFEST features 10 bands on two
stages with the proceeds going to CASA of Bastrop
in its effort to help abused and neglected children.
Carolyn Wonderland headlines. 3pm-12mid. The Oaks,
10206 FM 973 N., Manor. $15. www.bastropmusicfest.com.

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS Put your pets on
leashes, and bring ’em to the churchyard to be
blessed. 10am. Ascension Lutheran Church, 6420 Hart,
345-4030. Free, www.ascensionaustin.org.

CAPITAL CITY MARCHING FESTIVAL Central Texas
high school marching bands compete for one of two
prizes: Best Musical Performance and Best General
Effect. Sadly, there’s no award for sweetest epaulet.
9am-8pm. Toney Burger Activity Center, 3200 Jones,
414-2096. $7 ($5, children/seniors/students/military).
www.capitalcitymarching.org.

CENTRAL TEXAS MARCHING SHOWCASE Expect
back-to-back (-to-back-to-back ...) halftime shows as
17 high school bands strut their stuff. Decide along
with the judges who stands out from the usual cymbal-
flashing and drum-rolling shenanigans. 10:30am-9pm.
Round Rock ISD Athletic Complex, 10211 W. Parmer Ln.
$5 ($3, students), www.centexmarchingshowcase.com.

CRAZY TECHNO DANCE PARTY 10pm. Pearl Street
Coop, 1906 Pearl. $4.

DOLL SHOW & SALE The Austin Doll Collectors
Society brings together vendors selling everything

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS

from vintage dolls and accessories to modern
collectibles. Check out the charity booth with the
money going to SafePlace and the Austin Children’s
Center. 10am-4pm. Travis County Expo Center ; 9100
Decker Lake Rd., 323-9639. $5 ($2, children).
www.onr.com/user/bblady/dollshow.html.

'iAf> EID AL-FITR CARNIVAL Celebrate the end of
Ramadan with the Muslim American Society. The
carnival features ethnic clothing vendors, food
from around the world, and moonwalks and face
painting for the kids. All faiths are encouraged to
attend but are asked to respect this place of wor-
ship by dressing appropriately (no shorts or short
skirts) and leaving the pets at home. 2-8pm. North
Austin Muslim Community Center ; 11900 N. Lamar ;
659-1523. Free, www.masaustin.org.

FALL BREW FEST Might I recommend you play
in the frisbee golf tournament before you visit the
five beer tents. Live music and food will be avail-
able to accompany your bender. It’s all the fun
of Oktoberfest without all the pesky lederhosen.
Noon-lOpm. Flying Saucer Draught Emporium ,

815 W. 47th, 454-8200. Free, www.beerknurd.com.

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COMMUNITY sports arts film music

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Strips

The Bugle Boy in
La Grange doesn’t
need beer specials
to attract a crowd.

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the former Army barracks focus on d
the connection between the musi- ^
cian and the audience. It’s like sit- 3
ting in a living room with an artist §
singing just for you. °

Lane Gosnay started supplying music to the Fayette County area several years ago by
hosting the Bear Creek Concerts series. The house concerts led to the opening of a
venue that presents music in a relaxed, family setting on the northern outskirts of town.

In January 2005, Gosnay purchased the former Sons of Hermann Hall. The building
has the feel of a church activity hall. Audience members sit on couches, around small
tables, and with their feet up on empty chairs within a few feet of the stage. There isn’t
a bad seat in the house.

“A lot of performers are a little uncomfortable at first with how quiet the audiences
tend to be,” Gosnay says. “Sometimes it takes a couple of songs before they can feel
the audience, but after that, they’ll really connect. It’s a great thing to watch.”

With her reputation for providing artists with an appreciative audience, Gosnay attracts
many Central Texas favorites such as Shake Russell, Eliza Gilkyson, Sara Hickman, and
Ruthie Foster to her stage. She also takes pride in giving up-and-coming artists a chance
to hone their skills.

“People trust the level of talent that we bring to town, even if they don’t recognize the
name,” Gosnay says. On any given Friday or Saturday night, the audience will include all
ages, from retirees to young children.

Besides a loyal group of locals, the club draws fans from Houston and Austin, many of
whom have weekend homes in the area. She once had a couple drive from West Texas
just because they wanted to enjoy live music without being in a loud barroom.

You never know who will sign up to play at Showcase Sundays, held the first and third
Sundays of each month. Gosnay has tried to elevate the afternoons to more than just a reg-
ular open mic. A panel of judges picks one artist to be invited back for biannual “best of”
showcases, and then the winners of those rounds play at the Bugle Boy’s anniversary party.

The Bugle Boy is about 60 miles east of Austin off of Highway 71 at 1051 N.

Jefferson (U.S. 77). The canteen offers a selection of wine, beer, smoothies, and coffee
drinks. Shows on Friday and Saturday begin at 8pm and usually end by 10pm. For infor-
mation on who is appearing, call 979/968-9944 or go to www.thebugleboy.com.

Gosnay recommends dining before the show at Bistro 108, 108 S. Main, or at Fishes
& Loaves Family Restaurant, 4601 Hwy. 159. For a list of local inns and motels, go to
www.lagrangetx.org.

900th in a series. Day Trips, Vol. 2, a book of “i Day Trips" 101-200, is available for $8.95, plus $3.05
for shipping, handling , and tax. Mail to: Day Trips, PO Box 33284, South Austin, TX 78704.

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ANTIQUE FESTIVAL takes over both sides of the
highway between Warrenton and Round Top for one
of the largest gatherings of dealers in the state.
Fri.-Sun., Through Oct. 5. Round Top, 979/968-5756.

www.lagrangetx.org.

COME & TAKE IT FESTIVAL remembers the first
battle for Texas independence with music, arts &
crafts, carnival, biergarten, and more. Fri.-Sun., Oct.
3-5. Pioneer Village Living History Center, Gonzales,
888/672-1095. www.gonzalestexas.com.

OLD YELLER DAYS FESTIVAL pays
tribute to local legend Fred Gipson with
an Old Yeller look-alike contest, games,
food, and pioneer demonstrations. Sat.,
Oct. 4, 9am-4pm. Courthouse lawn, Mason,
325/347-5758. www.masontxcoc.com.

HILL COUNTRY FALL LAVENDER
FESTIVAL is a moveable feast of fun
with four lavender farms in the Johnson
City area opening their gates to special
events including wine tasting, shopping,
music, and cooking demonstrations.

Sat., Oct. 4, 10am-5pm. Johnson City ;
830/868-2806. Free.
www.beckervineyards.com.

EVENING WITH THE AUTHORS presents
a unique chance to enjoy conversation,
food, and wine with regional and national
authors to benefit the Dr. Eugene Clark
Library, the oldest continuously oper-
ated library in Texas. Sat., Oct. 4, 6-9pm.
Lockhart, 512/398-3223. $30.
eveningwiththeauthors@austin.rr.com,
www.clarklibraryfriends.com.

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS You know what to expect:
pretty much everything. Rides, concerts, daredevilry,
explosions, and Big Tex to welcome you. Through Oct.
19. Dallas, 214/565-9931. www.bigtex.com.

WILDLIFE REFUGES CLOSED According to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anahuac, Texas Point,
Moody, and McFaddin wildlife refuges sustained a
direct hit from Hurricane Ike causing the destruction of
its facilities and will be closed to public activities until
further notice. Southeast Texas, www.fws.gov/southwest.

OKTOBERFEST offers continuous German entertain-
ment with a Texas accent, lots of food, games for
the kids, and artists showing their recent works. Fri.-
Sun., Oct. 3-5. Downtown Marktplatz, 100 W. Main St.,
Fredericksburg , 830/997-4810. $6 ($1, kids).
www.oktoberfestinfbg.com .

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HAIRY MAN FESTIVAL Named after the mythical, mean her-
mit who lived along Brushy Creek, this festival raises money
for local charities by offering a plethora of family-friendly
activities and entertainment. Noon-7pm. Cat Hollow Park,
8600 O'Connor Rd., Round Rock. $2 or two nonperishable
food items, www.hairymanfestival.org.

HERB FEST Learn all the herb basics. Learn the best herbs
to grow in Texas, ancient herbal remedies, and how to tell
a good bug from a bad one. Leave the Zig-Zags at home.
9am-lpm. Sunset Valley Farmers Market, Toney Burger Center,
3200 Jones Rd., 468-9125. Free, www.austinherbsociety.org.

4ft* KIDZ FALL FUN FEST Bring donations for the Capital Area
Food Bank or Round Rock’s Clothes Closet, and let the kids
loose on the moonwalk or any of the other attractions for the
wee one in your life. 9am-2pm. Arbor Walk, 10515 MoPac N.,
577-8254. Free (can or clothing donations suggested).
www.kidzaustin.com.

ing to fishing. New this year is the “Be a Diver” tank
where lucky participants try on real scuba gear and
test it out safely in a shallow pool. There will also be
classes on the variety of flora and fauna of Texas. Get
outside and get in on the fun. Sat.-Sun., Oct. 4-5. Texas
Parks & Wildlife headquarters, 4200 Smith School Rd.,
800/792-1112. Free, www.tpwd.state.tx.us/expo.

^ WOM-PO BRINGS THE WOMP ASS WOMenPOets,
son. Here’s who’s throwin’ down: Bobbi Chukran, Alicia
Zavala Galvan, Judy Jensen, Katherine Durham Oldmixon,
D’Arcy Randall, and Abe Louise Young. Whomp! 7pm.
BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Ste. A-105, 472-2785.

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT FESTIVAL (See Friday.)
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE ASSEMBLY (See Friday.)

^ KILLING YOU SOFTLY WITH OUR SONGS

(See Friday.)

MOVIE IN THE PARK screens Whale Rider. 8pm. Dottie
Jordan Park, 2803 Loyola , 971-7907. Free.

NXNW OKTOBERFEST Can’t make it to the Hill Country
for Oktoberfest? No problem. Your favorite local brewery
brings all things German right to your doorstep. Adults can
enjoy beer, a bratwurst-eating contest, and more oompahs
per hour than the law should allow. The kids meanwhile will
be kept busy by Pinty the Bear, balloon animals, a bungee
run, and more activities to make sure they’re tired when
you’re nursing your hangover. Sat.-Sun., Oct. 4-5. North by
Northwest Restaurant & Brewery , 10010 Capital of TX Hwy. N.,
467-6969. $2. www.nxnwbrew.com.

ORGANIC GARDENING WORKSHOP Grow veggies in your
own back yard the natural way. The Green Corn Project
can show you how. 9am-2pm. Green Corn Project, 1210
Rosewood. $50 ($40, students), www.greencornproject.org.

PAGAN PRIDE DAY Celebrate the diversity of life with music
and other festivities. Why worship one god when there are
so many out there? 10am-8pm. Wooldridge Square Park,

900 Guadalupe , 300-8470. Free with a canned food donation.

www.austinppd.org.

PAUL WALL CHILDREN’S BENEFIT Look who’s giving back to
the community. The grill master from Houston, Paul Wall, per-
forms live to benefit the Dell Children’s Medical Center. 6-10pm.
ZBT fraternity house, 28th & Salado. $20 ($15, advance).

www.westcampusliving.com/tickets.php.

PERMACULTURE WORKSHOP is taught by permaculture
know-it-all Rob Scott. Rethink your relationship to your food
with workshops on the energy economics of food production
and better ways to store your food. For the serious sustainable
foodie in your life. 10am-6pm. Hubbert’s Peak Creative Works,
4704-B E. Cesar Chavez, 535-7424. $60. www.hubbertspeak.org.

PROJECT BEAT Participate in this monthly community
dialogue and roundtable on race. 9-ll:30am. St. James’
Episcopal Church, 1941 Webberville.

Q VOLLEYBALL Spike it. You’ll like it. The Q Boyz are
looking for a few good Qs. 6pm. Pease Park, Windsor & Lamar,
420-8557. mp_austin@sbcglobal.net, www.qboyz.org.

RECYCLING RANGERS Help Keep Austin Beautiful keep
recyclables from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Expo from end-
ing up in the garbage. There are various shifts throughout
Saturday and Sunday. Call or go online to volunteer.

4200 Smith School Rd., 391-0617 x901.
www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/vol2recycle.

SHERIFF’S EXTRAVAGANZA Expect the usual party staples:
food, entertainment, raffles, and lots of activities for the kids
including a moon bounce, clowns, and more. However, the
kids will probably be more interested in the SWAT and K-9
booths. That is, until they see the fire truck. llam-4pm.

Wells Branch MUD Office , 3000 Shoreline. Free.

SOUTH FIRST ART WALK All up and down this increasingly arty
strip of South Austin, businesses will be stepping their game up
for the neighborhood’s annual art walk. Kinda like First Thursday
on Congress but way cooler and significantly less drunken.

Bring donations for the Capital Area Food Bank. Noon-dusk. Free
(donations appreciated), www.myspace.com/southfirst78704.

ST. FRANCIS PET BLESSING On the feast day of St. Francis
your pets are invited to get in on the blessings you’ve been
receiving all year. Dogs must be leashed. 10am. Cristo Rey
Catholic Church, 2215 E. Second, 477-1099. Free.

crsacraments@austin.rr.com.

TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK GALA This annual celebration
and fundraising gala features an award ceremony, a silent
auction, and live music from Ruby Jane and Ian McClagan
& the Bump Band. 7:30pm. La Zona Rosa, 612 W. Fourth,
322-0545. $50. www.tfn.org/votetfn.

# TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE EXPO Now in its 17th
year, this celebration of all things outdoors features hands-
on demos of everything from paddle sports to bird watch-

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIALOGUE &
DELIBERATION (See Friday.)

-iAf- OKTOBERFEST (See Friday.)

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

(See Friday.)

CLASSICAL MUSIC (See Arts Listings.)

Golden Hornet Project: Big Band Frenzy 2

Wooldridge Square Park

ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)

Bolm Studios, International Center of Austin,
Wally Workman Gallery

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show @ Alamo Drafthouse
Village, 12 mid

U2 3D @ IMAX Theatre , 9pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Graveyard Stubb’s

Quintron & Miss Pussycat Emo’s

El Flaco Scoot Inn & Bier Garten

Tito & Tarantula Red 7
The Kooks, the Whigs Antone’s

SUNDAY

ATHEIST COMMUNITY LECTURE Russell
Glasser shows all you lazy atheists how to
evangelize. The best defense against theism is a good
offense. 12:15pm. Austin History Center ; 810 Guadalupe,
371-2911. www.atheist-community.org.

BLESSING OF ANIMALS Bring your pets (caged or
leashed) of all shapes and sizes to be made a bit more
holy. 4pm. Hemphill Park, 30th & Whitis, 478-1933. Free.

www.lstenglish.org.

GREAT SEXPECTATIONS Nothing is taboo during this
class that teaches everything from better self-satisfaction
to how to talk dirty without blushing. 6-9pm. Forbidden Fruit,
108 E. North Loop, 453-8090. $25. www.forbiddenfruit.com.

HALLOWEEN WITH THE SYMPHONY The Austin
Symphony plays all the spooky hits for your costumed
kids. Learn about orchestral music and the instruments
used to make it. Designed for kids ages 3 to 10, but
all are encouraged to attend. 2pm. Long Center for the
Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside , 476-6064. $8, child;
$12, adult, www.austinsymphony.org.

iAf- HOT TALK: 2008 ELECTION EDITION This event
is part moderated forum and part opportunity for
candidates to meet with constituents. Local district
candidates are scheduled to attend, including Larry Joe
Doherty, Mark Strama, Donna Howard, and more. 5-8pm.
Dell Jewish Community Center ; 7300 Hart, 735-8012 xl9.
Free, lisa.goodgame@shalomaustin.org.

PAWS IN THE PARK Help support the Austin Dog
Alliance with this afternoon of canine Olympics. Win
prizes for the hurdle jump, relay, or costume contest.
Some events have a small fee. For the less competitive
pets there are classes to increase your pooch’s agility,
dance skills, and more. l-4pm. Cedar Park Regional
Medical Center, 1401 Medical Pkwy ., Cedar Park. Free.
www.austindogalliance.org/PnPSchedule.htm.

^ T-DANCE WITH HEDDA LAYNE Sunday means a
patio of barbecued goodies, beefcaked compatriots, and
the ambient musical genius of one Ms. Hedda Layne.

It’s Rain’s Sunday T-Dance, and it only happens once a
month. Rain on 4th, 217 W. Fourth , 494-1150.
www.heddalayne.com .

COMMUNITY

Got The Gas Guzzlin' Blues??

SPORTS ARTS FILM MU SIC

^ THE SHONDES Shame? Shonde means
“shame?” The only shame you’ll endure is the shame
you’ll endure if you miss it. Many Birthdays, Grand
Nostalgic, and Prayer for Animals are not things
you’ll be celebrating, but bands you’ll be watching.

No shame in that. 10pm. Emo’s, 603 Red River,
477-3667. www.myspace.com/theshondes.

WOMEN’S RETREAT Experts from various fields
will impart their knowledge to enhance your
lifestyle. Classes and talks range from organic
cooking classes to living more sustainably. Call
to register. 9am-lpm. Casa de Luz, 1701 Toomey ,
735-8062. $55 ($45, advance).

AUSTIN RECORD CONVENTION (See Saturday.)
BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT FESTIVAL (See Friday.)

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE ASSEMBLY

(See Friday.)

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIALOGUE
& DELIBERATION (See Friday.)

NXNW OKTOBERFEST (See Saturday.)

# OKTOBERFEST (See Friday.)

RECYCLING RANGERS (See Saturday.)

'i A t* TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE EXPO

(See Saturday.)

lb YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

(See Friday.)

ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)

Hyde Park Bar & Grill, Paciugo Italian Gelato
& Cafe

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)

City Lights @ Alamo Ritz , 9:30pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Jaguares Stubb’s

Henry Rollins La Zona Rosa

lb BOOKS WITH BITE Part of Teen
Read Month, the theme encourages read-
ing about everything from vampires to cooking.

This event helps you get started designing your
Halloween costume. Keep an eye out for more
library events with a good mouthfeel. 4pm. Faulk
Central Branch Library, 800 Guadalupe, 974-7400.
www.cityofaustin.org/library.

lb BREATHING LIFE INTO WORDS Philip Yates
leads a writing workshop for kids. No prerequisites.
Everyone welcome. 7-8:30pm. Hampton Library ,
5125 Convict Hill Rd., 892-6680.

DISSIDENT DISSENT Army Col. (Ret.) and
diplomat Ann Wright’s own personal voice of con-
science led her to resign her State Department
post as the lead-up to the Iraq War loomed as the
cruel and ill-fated debacle it was to be. Come hear
her story and pick up her book. 7pm. BookWoman,
5501 N. Lamar Ste. A-105, 472-2785.

lb SUPERHERO IN YOU MOVIE NIGHT screens
Simon Birch. 6:30pm. Manchaca Library,

5500 Manchaca.

TEXAS POLITICS SPEAKER SERIES State Rep. Rick
Noriega, five-term member of the Texas House, talks
about his life and current bid for the U.S. Senate.
1:30pm. UT campus, Dorothy L. Gebauer Building. Free.

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE You have
until midnight tonight to register to vote. If you
don’t vote, we better not hear any complaints for
the next four years, www.votexas.org.

VOTER REGISTRATION VOLUNTEERS NEEDED The

Travis County Democratic Party wants one more big
push on the last day to register to vote. Volunteers
can sign up for shifts throughout the day and night,
so there’s no excuse. Isn’t it time you did more than
just vote? 7am-12mid. Travis County Democratic
Party HQ, 1107 N. 1-35. www.turntexasblue.com.

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION Allowing it to be called
a “bailout” even after changes were made to make
it less so was probably the first mistake. Assistant
News Editor Nora Ankrum tells us to look on the
bright side: The last Great Depression, she says,
brought us some great things: gunnysack
fashion, dance marathons, newsie caps,
Hoovervilles (which she acknowledges
are not good things but still insists
that she will invest in them), and The
Grapes of Wrath. I added screwball
comedies to the list. Likewise, this
economic crisis has brought the entire
country to one particularly pleasurable
realization that so many gay people have known all
along: Barney Frank is one brilliant SOB.

God, I love Barney Frank. The Massachusetts
congressman and chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee and, as such, a major player
in the current bail-out crisis on Capitol Hill, says
this about John McCain’s chest puffery and panic
regarding the financial mess:

“It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in the
history of either football ... or Marys.”

The jolly poof then goes on to compare
the Bush administration and Secretary
Paulson’s resistance to conceding execu-
tive pay caps or “golden parachutes” to
“trying to force the grand rabbi of Jerusalem
to eat bacon on Yom Kippur.” Thank you,
Barney Frank, for reppin’ the GLBT with some seri-
ous funny.

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CALE C 0 M M U N I TY sports arts film music

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)
Quinceahera @ Alamo Drafthouse South , 9pm
Rockers @ Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Saviours Emo’s

The Guess Who One World Theatre

TUESDAY

AUSTIN ORIGINALS FOR SAFEPLACE

Good food, live and silent auctions, and
music from Glovertango and Graham Reynolds.
Sounds like a great night, but the best part is that
the money goes to help end domestic abuse in
Central Texas. 7-9:30pm. Austin Music Hall , 208
Nueces , 263-4146. $250. www.safeplace.org.

DEBATE WATCH PARTY Watch the debates with
other local lefties, and every donated dollar goes
toward electing Democrats. 7:30pm. Long Center
for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside , 477-7500.
$5 suggested donation, www.turntexasblue.com.

-iAr- HAAM BENEFIT DAY The Health Alliance for
Austin Musicians keeps local artists alive and kick-
ing, and now is your chance to help. Venues, restau-
rants, and all kinds of businesses donate a portion
of the day’s profits in an effort to keep this city’s
lifeblood healthy. Go to www.healthallianceforaustin
musicians.org for a complete schedule of benefit
shows and a list of participating businesses.

^ LADY BUNNY IS BACK Have we got a gigan-
tic pickle surprise for you, kitten! Lady Bunny of
Wigstock fame brings it back to the Can. Two
shows. 11pm & lam. Oilcan Harry’s , 211 W. Fourth ,
320-8823.

# NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHT OUT Keep an eye
out for block parties in your neighborhood. Nothing
planned? Why not sign up online and start one
yourself. National Night Out is an effort to increase
neighborhood communications and curtail crime
and drug activity by strengthening police/commu-
nity ties, www.cityofaustin.org/police/nno.htm.

NIGHT UNDER ONE SKYE This enchanted evening
benefits Austin Area Interreligious Ministries with din-
ner, music, and “a focus on the Buddhist presence
in Austin.” 6:30-9:30pm. Umlauf Sculpture Garden &
Museum , 605 Robert E. Lee , 386-9145. $125 for two
tickets, www.aaimaustin.org/under_one_skye.html.

EXPO (SEE SATURDAY)

PARENTING LECTURE The physiological journey
of birth can be a bumpy road. Get a newborn’s
perspective from before, during, and after birth.
6:15-9:30pm. Soma Vida Center ; 1210 Rosewood
Ave., 721-9062. $45, individual; $65, couple; $30,
single parents; free, high school student/teen.
www.newbornbreath.com/content/simple-tools-lecture.

SIERRA CLUB MONTHLY MEETING Learn the
details of the proposed 34-mile trail from Zilker
Park to the Onion Creek Preserve in Kyle at this
monthly meeting of the Austin Sierra Club. 7pm.
Texas State Teachers Association, 316 W. 12th. Free.

SOCIAL WORK LECTURE SERIES Mark Potok, direc-
tor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence
Project, presents this talk on hate in America. 2pm.
Flawn Academic Center Atrium, UT campus. Free.
www.utexas.edu/ssw.

^ STEAK NIGHT, CHOCOLATES FOR CHARITY,
& STRIP-OFF Come early for a $6 steak (or
chicken) with all the fixin’s, plus the adventure in
mouthfeel known as Chocolates for Charity, run

by the United Court to benefit local nonprofits.
Then stay late for Jame Perry’s original amateur
strip-off. Tuesdays, 6pm & 12mid. Charlie’s Austin,
1301 Lavaca , 474-6481. www.charliesaustin.com.

STORY-BUILDING AT MUELLER Mueller isn’t
just a bunch of dead grass anymore; people actually
live there. Bring the kids to check out the new parks
while they learn some unique storytelling techniques
including theatre, dance, and yoga. Thursdays in
October ; 5:30pm. Mueller Lake Park, outdoor amphi-
theatre, 703-9202. Free, www.muelleraustin.com.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)

City Lights @ Alamo Ritz, 10:10pm

Love in Thoughts @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

HAAM Day Continental Club

Pattern Is Movement Mohawk

WEDNESDAY

ART OF SELF MASSAGE On their 23rd
anniversary, the Westlake Foundation
offers an open house and seminar. Reserve a spot
and learn to give yourself a head-to-toe massage.
6-8:30pm. Westlake Foundation, 3939 Bee Caves Rd.
Bldg. B, 329-6103. Free, www.westlakefoundation.org.

^ CLUB WELL AREN’T YOU SPECIAL? If you

don’t have your Club Popular card yet, you can’t
come. That’s right. Bringing exclusivity to Fourth
Street. Umm, again. A members-only night of
dancing, Ben Andrews, and Manhunting. 9pm.
Oilcan Harry’s, 211 W. Fourth, 320-8823.
www.oilcanharrys.com.

METROPOLITAN BREAKFAST CLUB This week,
Democratic candidate Larry Joe Doherty talks
about the future of water in Texas. 7am. Darrell K.
Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, UT Club, sixth floor,
2108 E. Robert Dedman , 479-9460. $15.
www.mbcaustin.org.

# MOODY LECTURE SERIES The RGK Center
for Philanthropy and Community Service welcomes
Craig Newmark, the namesake of Craigslist. 5pm.
AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center on
UT campus, 1900 University Ave. Free.
www.utexas.edu/lbj'/ rgk/outreach/events/newmark.php.

STARTING A FOOD BUSINESS The owners of the
Kitchen Space and Luxe Sweets will give you the
secrets to starting your own foodie establishment
and succeeding. 6:30-9pm. The Kitchen Space,

1204 Cedar, 535-5137. $25. www.thekitchenspace.com.

WRITING AN EXCELLENT COLLEGE ADMISSION

ESSAY Avoid cliches and let your personality

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shine through in your writing. Jim Fabris, writ-
ing coach, will show you how. 7pm. Westbank
Community Library, 1309 Westbank Dr., 905-9060.
Free, www.geocities.com/jamfabl.

YOGA AT MUELLER This new development is
pulling out all the stops to impress the neighbors.
And nothing brings Austinites together like free
yoga. Wednesdays through October, 6pm. Mueller
Central Information Center lawn, off Aldrich Street,
703-9202. Free, www.muelleraustin.com.

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT FESTIVAL (See Friday.)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)

“Black Panther” and “San Francisco State:
On Strike” @ CAL 100 (on the UT campus), 7pm
Austin Asian American Film Festival preview

@ Nueva Onda, 8pm

City Lights @ Alamo Ritz, 10:30pm

Slacker Uprising @ Beerland, 7pm

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Todd Snider Cactus Cafe

THURSDAY 09

^ ‘THE LARAMIE PROJECT’ BENEFIT

FOR THE Q Come bolster the boys at
ASA’s Q community center with the lOth-year com-
memoration of the life and tragic death of Matthew
Shepherd. Six shows run through mid-October. Thu-
Sat, Oct. 9-11 & 14-16, 7:30pm. Boyd Vance Theatre
at Carver, 1165 Angelina, 420-8557. $15, $10
(student), $20 (reserved seating), www.qboyz.org.

^ BW OPEN MIC Hosted by Alpha, this month:
Women’s Slam. 7pm. BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar
Ste. A-105, 472-2785. bookwmntx@hotmail.com.

CLEAN CARBON SUMMIT Get an in-depth look
at the policy and technology necessary to meet
Texas’ energy needs. Gov. Rick Perry and Sen.

John Cornyn will both be keynoting, so expect talk
of coal as a viable option. Learn the options or
perhaps know thy enemy. Thu.-Fri., Oct. 9-10. Omni
Hotel Downtown, 700 San Jacinto, 476-3700. $850
($425, student); advance: $700 ($350, sudent).
lauren.pauls@iemshows.com, www.cleancarbonsummit.com.

# GIRLSTART FOR GROWN-UPS This program
isn’t just for the kids anymore; the older genera-
tion has things to learn too. This session is all
about blogging. Learn how to customize your own
web log with a pro by your side. ll:30am-lpm.
Girlstart Tech Center, 1400 W. Anderson, 916-4775.
$50. www.girlstart.org/workshops/adult-workshops.asp.

JOB NEWS JOB FAIR Dress your best, because
jeans, flip-flops, and other indicators of deadbe-
atitude will be turned away at the door. Register
online. 10am-3pm. Omni Hotel Southpark,

4140 Governor’s Row, 693-4750. Free.
www.jobnewsaustin.com.

PARENTS OF DYSLEXIC CHILDREN
SUPPORT GROUP meets today to discuss
“Homework Blues: How you can avoid power strug-
gles over homework.” 7pm. Scottish Rite Learning
Center, 12871 Hwy. 183 N., room 203, 472-1231.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

(See Friday.)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)
Anguish @ Alamo Ritz, 12mid

Call + Response @ Dobie, 7, 9

MUSIC (See Music Listings.)

Monotonix Mohawk
Zoroaster Red 7
Todd Snider Cactus Cafe

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^ FOODIES Or as they in the know, whose
love dare not speak its name say: Women Who
Love Women Who Love Food. Yuh huh. This legendary
e-mail-based social network holds weekly meet-ups, pri-
vate house parties, and special events for the lay-deez.
Somebody has to. E-mail Kitty Poo-Poo to get on the list.
beatsagogo@aol.com.

GET OUT THE VOTE CONTEST Middle and high school-
ers are challenged to create a compelling work that shows
the importance of voting. Write an essay, film a 60-second
public service announcement, design a poster, or build a
website depicting voting as an integral part of citizenship.
More details are online. The deadline for entries is Oct. 17.
www.texelects.org.

^ WATERLOO’S HART PROGRAM Low- to no-cost mental
health counseling and support for folks struggling with HIV
or AIDS. Bilingual? /S/7 Waterloo Counseling Center, 3000 S.
1-35 #315, 444-9922 x329. www.waterloocounseling.org.

HEALTHY WOMEN, HEALTHY FAMILIES This coalition
is collecting info and stories about the state of women’s
health in Texas. Go online and take the survey, or share a
story about a health-care challenge you’ve faced. The group
hopes to take these stories and figures to the Legislature
to raise awareness of Texas women’s health issues.
www.healthywomenhealthyfamilies.org.

LAW BASICS WORKSHOPS The Greening Law Firm offers
introductions to everything from living trusts to retirement
funds to Medicaid throughout the year, and most of them are
free to the public. Go online or call for a schedule of classes
and their locations. 476-0888. www.greeninglawfirm.com.

^ VIOLET CROWN COUNSELING Specialized individual
and relationship psychotherapy for the LGBTQIJKLMNOP
and open-minded. Over 86 years experience between ’em.
895-9558. www.violetcrowncounseling.com.

HOME ENERGY SURVEY UT graduate students need your
input about current energy use and your hopes for future
energy policies. Gather some old energy bills, and go to

www.surveygizmo.com/s/68524/energysurvey to help out.

& later

AIDS WALK Sign up now, and help raise funds
for AIDS Services of Austin and other service and
education providers. Panels from the Memorial Quilt
will be on display to get you in the fighting spirit. No one
is immune, so everyone should participate. Sun., Oct. 19,
9:30am. Austin City Hall, 406-6199. www.aidswalkaustin.org.

^ GAYRIBBEAN HALLOWEEN CRUISE Yes, its autumn.
That gives you a few weeks to pull together that perfect cos-
tume for all the perfect parties aboard (and ashore) for this
spooky autumn cruise. Update: Now departs from Houston
instead of Galveston. Sun., Oct. 26-Nov. 2. Sail from Houston
aboard Carnival's Conquest to Montego Bay , Grand Cayman,
and Cozumel, 877/560-8318. From $568.
info@gayribbean.com, www.gayribbeancruises.com.

^ GHOULS’ NIGHT OUT Over 200 women showed up at
last year’s All Hallow’s gourrrl-fest to benefit Equality Texas.
Scary? Relax, you’ll be in costume. Fri., Oct. 31, 8:30pm.
Private residence, call for location. $25, early ghoul tix: $20.

eqfed.org/eqtx/events/shannonmckinney_oct31_austin/details.tcl.

LADIES ROCK CAMP Ladies, women, and grrrls can now
experience the good times and powerful feelings of rock
camp while contributing to Girls Rock Camp Austin. A fund-
raiser for the girls camp, Ladies Rock Camp is a weekend
day camp where women ages 19 and older learn to play
instruments, form bands, write songs, and perform live in a
showcase at the end of camp. No musical experience nec-
essary. Fri.-Sun., Oct. 17-19; showcase Oct. 19. Held at the
Griffin School (710 E. 41st) and Sri Atmananda (4100 Red
River). $350 (includes all meals), $250 (starving artist rate).
Download application at www.girlsrockcamp.org;
e-mail lrc@girlsrockcampaustin.org for more info.

-iAf- MAKER FAIRE This two-day, family-friendly event is for
those with the heart of an inventor, the spirit of an explorer,
or the mind of an engineer. Expect robots of varying sophis-
tication, a life-sized mousetrap, a bike zoo, Diet Coke and
Mentos fountains, and so much more DIY excitement. Sat.
Oct. 18, lOam-lOpm; Sun., Oct. 19, 10am-6pm. Travis County
Expo Center, 9100 Decker Lake Rd., 707/827-7074. $25,
adults; $15, students; $10, youth; 3 & under, free.
www.makerfaire.com.

BY THOMAS HACKETT playingthrough

Before he took up boxing, Robert D’Lorm was
a sweet, shy, baby-faced boy who avoided physi-
cal altercations at all costs. After three years of

training at Richard Lord’s boxing
gym on North Lamar, Robert is
still that gentle, sloe-eyed boy.

I’m tempted to punctuate that
last sentence with an “except.”
Something like: He's just the
same - except that any kid who
messes with him on the play-
ground is looking for trouble.
Except there is no “except.”
Robert, 10, still has no
interest in fighting any-
one. That’s not why
he got into boxing. “I
don’t like beating guys
up,” he told me.

“You don’t like being
a tough guy?”

“No, sir.”

Richard Lord was pleased. He
knew that he’d trained his pupil
well. Learning to throw a sharp
jab has been a crucial part of
Robert’s training, of course, but
in Lord’s view, the boxing is just
a means to an end. He doesn’t
care who you are - a judge or a
drug dealer, a 5-year-old boy or a
45-year-old single mom - the goal
is to cultivate self-confidence.
“And that may have nothing to
do with boxing,” Lord said. “For
me, it’s about watching the whole
personality develop. When Robert
came in here three years ago, he
was overweight and out of shape.
He got picked on at school.

Well, he doesn’t get picked on
anymore, and that’s not because
he’s getting in fights. We teach
all of our fighters to walk away

from a fight. But they carry them-
selves differently. They’re secure
in themselves, so they don’t have
to fight.”

That’s where Lord likes to
think his majoring in psychology
at UT comes in handy. Growing
up in Dallas, he started boxing
when he was 5 years old, weigh-
ing in at 36 pounds, and liked
the sport for one simple
reason: He won more often
than he lost. Turning
professional, he was
once ranked No. 10 in
his weight class. But it
has been as a trainer that
he has had his most suc-
cess, particularly in working with
Jesus “El Matador” Chavez,
the World Boxing Council super
flyweight champion, who six years
ago showed up at Lord’s Gym
broke and homeless - and then
spent the next two years living
there. Lord also trains Anissa
Zamarron, a female world cham-
pion, and Richard Garriott,
the gazillionaire computer-game
developer slash space tourist. A
quarter century ago, he whipped
David Bowie into shape for his
Let's Dance album and tour.

“But you know what?” Lord
said. “I probably get as much sat-
isfaction out of working with kids
like Robert, watching how they
take what they learn here out into
their everyday world. It makes me
feel young. I feel like I’m combat-
ing all the bad things out there.”

THE HOME TEAMS

# AUSTIN VALKYRIES Women’s rugby,
Austin style. Valkyries B team vs. UT: Thu.,
Oct. 2, 7pm. UT intramural fields, 51st and
Guadalupe. Valkyries A team vs. Dallas: Sat.,
Oct. 4, time TBA. Burr Field , 6013 Loyola.

Free, www.austinvalkyries.com.

AUSTIN TOROS PLAYER TRYOUTS Local
bailers get a chance to work out for profes-
sional scouts with the possibility of making
the Toros’ training camp and then, cross
your fingers, the opening-day roster. Tryouts
will last the entire day. Sat., Oct. 4, 9am.
Woltman Gymnasium, Concordia University ,
11400 Concordia University Dr., 236-8333.
$175. www.austintoros.com.

iAf UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Soccer For

more on UT soccer, see “Soccer Watch,”
below. Vs. Iowa State: Sun., Oct. 5, noon.
Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium,

707 Manor Rd. $7 (adults), $4 (youth &
seniors). Volleyball Vs. Kansas State: Sat.,
Oct. 4, 6:30pm. Vs. Baylor: Wed., Oct. 8,
6:30pm. Gregory Gym, 2101 Speedway.
Women’s Swimming Orange/White meet.

Fri., Oct 3, time TBA. Texas Swimming Center,
1900 E. Campus Dr. www.texassports.com.

ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY For more on
Hilltoppers soccer, see “Soccer Watch,”
below. Men’s Soccer Vs. Northeastern State:
Sun., Oct. 5, lpm. Women’s Volleyball Vs.
Panhandle State: Thu., Oct. 9, 7pm.
www.stedwards.edu/athletics.

HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY Women’s

Soccer Vs. Bacone College: Thu., Oct. 2,

3pm. St. Francis, 300 E. Fluntland Dr. Men’s
Soccer Vs. Bacone College: Thu., Oct. 2,
lpm. St. Francis, 300 E. Huntland Dr.

SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Women’s

Soccer Vs. Dallas: Fri., Oct. 3, 4pm. Vs.
Austin College: Sun., Oct. 5, 2pm. Men’s
Soccer Vs. Colorado College: Fri., Oct. 3,
2pm. Vs. Austin College: Sun., Oct. 5, noon.

southwesternpirates.cstv.com.

RECREATION & FITNESS

FIRST SATURDAY AT HARVEY PENICK
GOLF COURSE “Try before you buy” lots
of new and used golf equipment. There
will also be putting and closest-to-the-pin
contests, along with free 30-minute golf les-
sons. Sat., Oct. 4, 8am. Harvey Penick Golf
Campus, 5501 Ed Bluestein, 926-1100.

FITNESS CHALLENGE & EVALUATION Come
in for your free fitness evaluation and see
what goals need to be attained for that black
belt in fitness. If you’re inspired, jump on
their 60-day fitness challenge and keep those
pounds off during the start of the holiday sea-
son. Sat., Oct. 4, l:30-3:30pm. Satori Method
Fitness Studio, 5000 Bee Caves Rd. #210,
698-9591. www.austinmartialarts.com.

COUPLES FRIDAY FITNESS DATE Couples
take part in fun fitness-related activities
while getting some hands-on face time. Be
prepared to sweat it out in this healthy take
on dating. Fridays at 7pm, through October.
About 45 minutes long. Oct. 3-31. The HIT
Center, 11000 N. Mopac #200, 338-4448. $5
per couple, www.hitcenters.com.

THE PUMA OPEN Hosted by PUMA and
Maxim magazine, this promises to be a dif-
ferent take on the golf tourney, with teams
of four competing in a nine-hole scramble,
followed by Vegas-style card games. The
grand prize is an all-expenses-paid trip
to the Maxim Bungalow in the Dominican
Republic. Must be 21 or older. Fri., Oct. 3,

Please write
Mr. Hackett at

playingthrough@

austinchronicle.com.

3pm. Wolf dancer Golf Club , 575 Hyatt Lost
Pines Rd., Lost Pines. $50. golf.puma.com.

MIND, BODY, SWING WORKSHOP The

Executive Women’s Golf Association hosts
this workshop for the ladies. Sat., Oct. 4, 8am-
5pm. Teravista Golf Club, 4333 Terra Vista
Club Dr., Round Rock. $199. www.ewga.com.

# THE GREAT URBAN RACE Teams of
two take part in this urban adventure race,
where they will solve puzzles and complete
challenges while traveling about town using
public transit. Part scavenger hunt, part
road race, and altogether wandering party
with a grand prize of $10,000 for the win-
ners at the national finals in Las Vegas.
Sun., Oct. 5, noon, www.greaturbanrace.com.

HILL COUNTRY OUTDOORS MEET & GREET

Come out and chill with Austin’s most active
outdoor, sport, and social club and learn
about their upcoming events you may want
to take part in. Thu., Oct. 9, 6:30pm. Drungo
Ice House, 2828 Rio Grande, 478-6666,
431-8878. Free, www.hillcountryoutdoors.com.

HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING FITNESS
CAMP This hourlong fitness crash course
will have you jumping, darting, and step-
ping your way to a healthier (or at least
more tired) self. They supply the plyoboxes;
just bring your no-pain, no-gain attitude.
Saturdays in October, 9am. South side of
Lady Bird Lake by First Street Bridge, 338-
4448. Free, www.hitcenters.com.

RUNS, WALKS, & RIDES

KIWANIS CLUB OF BASTROP 5K TOAD
TROT is a fundraiser for the Kiwanis Club of
Bastrop, which will give the money to local
high school students for scholarship funds
and the Lone Star Legacy Endowment Fund
for the Bastrop State Park. Sat., Oct. 4,

7am registration. Bastrop State Park, Loop
150 Hwy. 21, 512/581-4412. $15.
www.runningintheusa.com/toadtrot.

iAf NAMI WALK: FOR THE MIND OF
AMERICA This walk will benefit the

National Alliance on Mental Illness and

their programs that go to support, educa-
tion, and advocacy involving schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, major depression, obses-
sive-compulsive disorder, and severe anxi-
ety disorders. Sat., Oct. 4, 8am. Auditorium
Shores, 420-9810. www.nami.org/walk.

VIBHA DREAMMILE 5K Proceeds will
benefit Vibha’s child development projects
in India as well as a local beneficiary. Sun.,
Oct. 5, 8am. UT’s East Mall, 524-7679.

wiki.vibha.org/Dream_Mile_08:Austin_Home.

LEUKEMIA CUP REGATTA Bring your own
sailboat and race to fight blood cancers. The
registration and opening night dinner is Fri.,
Oct. 3, 7pm. The next two days feature com-
petitive sailing events with fabulous boat-relat-
ed prizes on the line. Austin Yacht Club, 5906
Beacon , 491-6610 x36. $75 or less depending
on fleet size, www.lls.org/austinregatta.

IRON ROCK RACEWAY The fine folks at
IRR are in the mood to celebrate and have
decided to offer race fans a buy-two-get-one-
free race special. See their website for details
and other special offers. Fri., Oct. 3, 10am-
8:30pm. Iron Rock Raceway, 10320 Hotel Dr.,
530-7223. 530-7223. www.ironrockraceway.com.

JDRF WALK TO CURE DIABETES will

benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research

Foundation and features tasty food, enter-
tainment, and activities for the kids. Sat.,
Oct. 4, 9:30am ( 8:30am registration). Dell
Diamond , 3400 E. Palm Valley, Round Rock,
512/343-0663. walk.jdrf.org.

AUSTIN MARATHON KIDS KICK OFF Enroll
your kiddos in this excellent program that
gets them running, as well as enjoying a
healthier diet, among other fun activities.

Sat., Oct. 4, 9am (Austin ISD), 11am (all other
districts). Mike Myers Track & Soccer Stadium,
707 Manor Rd. www.marathonkids.org.

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BY NICK BARBARO soccer watch

The UT Longhorns drew a record crowd of 5,585 at Mike A. Myers Stadium
Friday night for their 0-0 tie with Texas A&M in the Big 12 opener for both
teams. (It was also the third largest crowd in the country this season; the top
two were both at Aggie Stadium.) The Horns (still No. 7 nationally) are at
Nebraska Friday evening, before hosting Iowa State at noon Sunday ; Oct. 5.

St. Edward’s men lost their first game of the season Sunday in Denver,
2-1, to No. 6 Fort Lewis, after earlier beating Colorado School of Mines, 2-1.
The Hilltoppers are at No. 2 Midwestern State Friday, then host Northeastern
State at lpm Sunday , Oct. 5. The St. Ed’s women split a pair as well, losing
at TAMU-Commerce, then beating Newman, 2-1, in their conference opener.

Champions League results from both Europe and CONCACAF: The
Houston Dynamo earned a 4-4 draw in Mexico City Tuesday night, against
Pumas UNAM. Sloppy game, but a good result: MLS teams had been 0-13
lifetime in Mexico, and the Dynamo were playing their third game in eight days,
in three different foreign countries. They host Panama City’s San Francisco
FC Tuesday ; Oct. 7, 9pm , live on FSC and Galavision. As we go to press, DC
United hosts Cruz Azul, and the Puerto Rico Islanders and Montreal
Impact of USL-1 (it bears repeating, this
is the division the Austin Aztex will be
in next year) are on the road in
Guatemala and Honduras.

In Europe, English teams romped, Man
U 3-0 at Aalborg, Arsenal 4-0 over Porto,
and Liverpool 3-1 over PSV Eindhoven.

Full results with this column online.

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Cloud 9

Mary Moody
Northen Theatre,
through Oct. 5

Running time:

2 hrs, 40 min

What makes a
man a man? Or a
woman a woman
or a servant a
servant or anyone
anything? The
roles we take on
in life, the rules
we abide by, we
are as much their

creators as their followers. In Mary Moody
Northen Theatre’s production of Cloud 9,
the first under new Artistic Director David
Long, the search for self-fulfillment comes
into direct conflict with the roles society
dictates for us.

Yes, Cloud 9 is a mixed-up, muddled-up,
shook-up world where boys will be girls (a
man plays wife Betty) and girls will be boys
(a woman plays son Edward), an African ser-
vant is played by a white man, and the 25
years that pass for the characters are more
like a century in historical terms. Playwright
Caryl Churchill was looking to color outside
the lines from the get-go.

Like Death and the King's Horseman,
staged at the MMNT earlier this year, Cloud
9 deals with colonial Africa, and some of the
same stock characters appear in both plays
(the cocksure commander, the converted
servant). But the subject matter and tone
veer in sharply different directions. Cloud
9 satirizes the colonizing mindset of the
British Empire, as well as its oppressive
social structure.

Tracking the characters’ desires is like
following a soap opera: The governess is
in love with the lady of the house, who is
in love with the visiting explorer, who says
he’s in love with her but is screwing her son,
who loves him but can’t show it because he
must look manly in front of his father, who’s
having an affair with another woman.

Everyone’s a secret sinner in this colonial
Africa setting, hindered by hidden yearnings
but unable to act on them because of their
places in society (save dominant white male
Clive). Much of this is played for laughs,

with many knee-slapping, absurd moments,
but the knowledge that these characters are
stuck in unhappy marriages or full of unre-
quited love dampens that satirical swagger.

You say you want a revolution? In Act II,
set in 1979 but with the characters having
aged only 25 years, they get the liberation
they yearn for, only freedom doesn’t bring
them happiness. Instead of being defined
by their social roles, they’re defined by their
desires. Everything’s out in the open, such
as the single mother who explicitly asks her
female friend for sex. But giving into their
desires leads them no closer to fulfillment,
only naughty, gratuitous sex.

If this seems to paint a meager picture,
well, Churchill wants to challenge her soci-
ety’s concepts of gender, power, oppression,
and desire. Director David Long does not
get lost in the conceptual challenges of the
script, though: His Cloud 9 is entertaining,
quite funny, impeccably acted, and full of
beautiful moments. As in Long’s staging
of Full Circle at the MMNT last year, Cloud
9 has a strong ensemble element that is
brought out wonderfully when paired with
Michael McKelvey’s compositions.

You can’t choose your family. But how
long you let your background and soci-
ety determine who you are is, Churchill
implies, ultimately up to you. As an old,
independent-for-the-first-time Betty theoriz-
es, it’s a question of who to love and who
to live with. Answers may be hard to come
by, but there aren’t many more elegant,
entertaining ways to question your perspec-
tives than Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s
Cloud 9. - Avimaan Syam

theatre

OPENING

AUSTIN CABARET THEATRE: AMANDA MCBROOM

Some say love ... is taking a sweetheart to see
Amanda McBroom - the witty and elegant singer-
songwriter who penned B. Midler’s “The Rose” - as
she sparkles the ACT stage. Thu.-Fri., Oct. 2-3,
8:30pm. Mansion at Judges’ Hill, 1900 Rio Grande,
495-1800. $39. www.austincabaret.blogspot.com.

JEFF DUNHAM Perhaps best known (via the power of
YouTube) for his Achmed the Dead Terrorist schtick -
“Silence! I keel you!” - this Dunham’s a rarity in the
world: a successful ventriloquist. He and his posse
of dummies are in town for one night and planning to
pack the Erwin Center. Thu., Oct. 2, 8pm. Frank Erwin
Center ; 1701 Red River ; 471-7744. $38-43.
www.uterwincenter.com .

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Coffee is for closers, but
this David Mamet classic about the cutthroat world
of real estate salesmen is for anyone who appreci-
ates rat-a-tat-tat dialogue and the extremes of greed,
scheming, backstabbing, and middle-aged angst.

Well, let’s see how well the City Theatre ensemble,
under the direction of Andy Berkovsky and Charles
P Stites, renders the contentious drama. Oct. 2-26.
Thu. -Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5:30pm. City Theatre, 3823
Airport Ste. D, 524-2870. $15-20 ($12, students; pay
what you wish, Thursdays), www.citytheatreaustin.org.

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT (BAM) FESTIVAL

Experience the diverse voices of African-American
artists in a variety of performances including theatre,
dance, opera, and hip-hop at the Long Center and
other venues all around the city. Coming up this
week: Mufaro’s Daughters Oct. 3-4. Fri., 7pm; Sat., 2
& 7pm. Rollins Theatre at the Long Center. BAM Cafe
Fri., Oct. 3, 6-10pm. Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina.
The Giver: Staged Reading Sun., Oct. 5, 3pm. Carver
Museum, 1165 Angelina. No Boundaries: Visions of
Contemporary African-American Choreographers
Wed., Oct. 8, 8pm. Ballet Austin, 501 W. Third. See the
website for details: There’s more to come, through
Oct. 14. 474-LONG. $15 ($50, festival pass).
www.bamaustin.org.

THE LARAMIE PROJECT These performances will
commemorate the 10th anniversary of the murder of
Matthew Shepherd, with proceeds from ticket sales
going to the “Q” program, a service of AIDS Services
of Austin’s Prevention Department. Thu.-Sat.,

Oct. 9-18, 7:30pm. Boyd Vance Theatre at Carver,

1165 Angelina, 974-4926. www.qboyz.org.

CLOSING

THIRD Paradox Players present Wendy Wasserstein’s
final play, deftly written and crackling with sharp dia-
logue, about a liberal college professor and her con-
servative male student and questions of plagiarism.
Directed by Karen Jambon. Through Oct. 5. Fri.-Sat.,
8pm; Sun., 3pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church,
4700 Grover, 744-1495. $15 ($20, opening night with
reception ). www.paradoxplayers.org.

THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS Kathleen
Lawson stars in this one-woman David Rambo com-
edy about Ann Landers, directed by Chester Eitze
out in historic downtown Bastrop. Through Oct. 4.
Fri.-Sat ., 7:30pm. Bastrop Opera House, 711 Spring
St., Bastrop, 512/321-6283. $10 ($8, seniors; $7, stu-
dents). www.bastropoperahouse.com.

CLOUD 9 This Caryl Churchill play features a gender-
bent cast of characters that travels 100 years in
time - from 1880s Africa to 1970s London - while
aging only 25, in a story that challenges our precon-
ceptions about sex, romance, gender roles, and race.
Ingenious? Beyond clever? Why, yes: It’s Churchill,
isn’t it? Directed by David M. Long, featuring Babs
George and Matt Radford. (See review, left.) Through
Oct. 5. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. Mary Moody
Northen Theatre at St. Edward’s University, 3001 S.
Congress, 448-8484. $18 ($15, in advance; $12, stu-
dents, seniors, St. Ed’s community).

ACTORS FROM THE LONDON STAGE: THE
WINTER’S TALE Using only five actors to assume
all the roles in this Shakespearean drama, the
acclaimed troupe’s performances are minimalist in
props and staging, intimate and compelling in execu-
tion for this 10th annual event. Thu.-Fri., Oct. 2-3,

8pm. Payne Theatre, Winship Drama Bldg., 24th & San
Jacinto, 471-8567. $20 ($10, with UT ID).
www.texasboxoffice.com .

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ONGOING

ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE This acclaimed Ted
Swindley musical recounts the friendship that formed
between Patsy Cline and one of her greatest fans -
Louise Seger, a Texas housewife whose memory of
their meeting and correspondence rekindles an era
and a voice that changed country music. Featuring
Selena Rosanbalm as Cline, Edie Elkjer as Seger,
and live music from the Bodacious Bobcats Band.
Through Oct. 12. Thu.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2 & 7:30pm;
Sun., 2 & 7pm. Morris Theater ; TexArts Studios,

2300 Lohman’s Spur, Lakeway. $30. www.tex-arts.org.

AMADEUS Austin Playhouse starts its new season
with this Peter Shaffer classic, directed in all its
intricately costumed machinations by Don Toner and
featuring Rick Roemer as Salieri and David Gallagher
as Mozart. Through Oct. 19. Thu.-Sat ., 8pm; Sun.,

5pm. Austin Playhouse, 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C,
476-0084. $26-30. www.austinplayhouse.com.

HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES The Texas State
theatre department presents this absurdist com-
edy about a dysfunctional family and their unusual
guests. Written by John Boulanger, directed by Jeremy
Torres. Thu.-Sat ., Oct. 2-4, 7:30pm. The Blue Theater,
916 Springdale, 796-3429. $15 ($10, students).

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE! The
North by Northwest Theatre Company presents this
lively musical by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts. It’s
been a hit off-Broadway for 12 solid years, comedi-
cally exploring the joys of dating, romance, marriage,
lovers, husbands, wives, and in-laws. So, like, bring
a date. Through Oct. 12. Fri.-Sat ., 8pm; Sun. 2pm. The
Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 328-3836. $20 ($18,
students, seniors, military), www.nxnwtheatre.org.

BLACKBIRD David Harrower’s Olivier Award-winning
drama gets its Austin premiere as a collaboration of
Hyde Park Theatre and Capital T Theatre, with Cap
T’s Mark Pickell directing the incendiary duo of Ken
Webster and Xochitl Romero. Sparks, we reckon, are
gonna fly. (See review, p.84.) Through Oct. 11. Thu.-
Sat., 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, 479-PLAY.
$18 ($16, students, seniors, ACoT; pay what you can,
Thursdays), www.hydeparktheatre.com.

ROMEO AND JULIET Shakespeare’s classic tale of
star-crossed lovers is presented with a modern inter-
pretation out Round Rock way. Through Oct. 11. Thu.-
Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Sam Bass Community Theatre,
600 N. Lee, Round Rock, 512/244-0440. $15 ($13,
students, teachers, seniors), www.sambasstheatre.org.

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE Dave Steakley directs this
Tony Award-winning musical (book by Tony Kushner,
music by Jeanine Tesori) about a woman “working as
a maid for a southern Jewish family and struggling to
keep afloat emotionally and financially, while the young
son of her employer seeks solace in her company fol-
lowing the death of his mother.” This powerful show’s
not one of your bubbly musical-lite numbers, no.
Starring Janis Stinson among a fine supporting cast
and set in 1963 Lake Charles, La. Recommended.
Through Nov. 9. Wed. -Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. Zach
Theatre , 1510 Toomey ; 476-0541 xl. $20 (opening
weekend; prices rise thereafter), www.zachtheatre.org.

DINNER THEATRE

HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE The Capital
City Mystery Players present this interactive murder-
mystery takeoff on several past and present itera-
tions of the reality/game-show genre, a night of
sleuthful and wacky comedy that lets you twirl your
vermicelli (or divide your veal Parmesan or what have
you) while trying to figure out whodunit. Sat., Oct. 4,
7pm. Spaghetti Warehouse, 117 W. Fourth, 404-9123.
$29.95. www.capcitymystery.com.

AUDITIONS

ESTHER’S FOLLIES: WRITERS/PERFORMERS

Esther’s Follies is holding auditions for performers
and comedy writers for the regular cast. Seeking:
writer-comedians experienced in musical comedy,
sketch comedy, and improv comedy, to be avail-
able for the November/December/January season
of weekend performances. Especially looking for
African-American and Hispanic performers. Send your
resume and set up an interview via e-mail. Prepare
a five-minute monologue and a song. Get on it, y’all.
esthersfollies@aol.com.

THE LAST FIVE YEARS Michael McKelvey, set to
direct this Jason Robert Brown musical for Austin
Playhouse, is looking for a male with good singing in
the tenor range (age 22-33) and a female with extend-
ed belt (D) or good belt/mix (age 22-33). Audition with
a 32-bar cut of a song, preferably from the show. He
wants you to be good actors, too: You will be compen-
sated. E-mail for appointment. Oct. 18-19. Sat., 10am-
lpm; Sun., 2-4pm. Austin Playhouse, 3601 S. Congress,
Bldg. C, 476-0084. mikeem@stedwards.edu.

COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC

comedy

IN THE CLUBS

CAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research #100,

467-2333. www.capcitycomedy.com.

Matt Sadler Recommended. Matt Sadler.
Recommended. Matt Sadler. Rec - no, this is not
a publishing fuckup; we figure there’s no better
way to stress the sheer comedic goodness of this
guy’s stuff. Except maybe: Matt Sadler! Highly
recommended! Oh, and Jason Kanter opens.

Oct. 7-11. Tue-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.

Cap City Open Mic This gig ranges from “Who
let these dipshits onstage?” to “Wow, this guy
is awesomel” And, hey, it could be you up there,
dear reader, slaying your friends and neighbors.
Sundays , 8pm. Free with college ID.

Jo Koy This man’s one of those fast up-and-
comers, working his stuff all over your TV set and
opening for Mencia during that worthy’s recent
Punisher tour. Jo Koy, that’s the name, check his
website. Oct. 2-4. Thu., 8pm; Fri-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.

COLDTOWNE THEATER 4803 Airport,

524-2807. www.coldtowne.com.

Improv Out the Wazoo

Parallelogramophonograph goes vintage-screwball-
comedy with its improv, like Bringing Up Baby
and It Happened One Night and so on, all P-graph
stylee and with a little help from Skipfield. Thu.,
8pm. Next, UpTowne, ColdTowne’s all-sketch show.
Thu., 10pm. All this month, the Proctor show pres-
ents a Halloweeny gambit called “The Bat,” which
is improv performed completely in the dark. Fri.,
8pm. That Other Paper presents Punchline. The
popular stand-up showcase continues. Fri., 10pm.
Stool Pigeon features Travis Austin of the Pelicks
jump-starting the improv shenanigans that ensue.
Sat., 8pm. Cage Match Finals Oh, the human-
ity! Sat., 9pm. Cold, Cold Improv The ColdTowne
house troupe dishes up a comedy conflagration
for your entertainment, along with those amazing
Frank Mills. Sat., 10pm.

ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553.

www.esthersfollies.com.

Esther’s Follies: World Gone Wild The most
popular troupe in town returns with its riotous
musical send-ups of local and national politics
and cultural phenomena, making already hot
topics burn with a bright comic intensity, with
the incredible and - a/7 a/7 a/7 - spicy illusions of
master magician Ray Anderson. Thrills! Chills!
Ripped-from-the-headlines events turned into com-
edy gold! Reservations highly recommended. Thu.-
Fri., 8pm; Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts available
Thursdays & Fridays for seniors, students, military).
Additional $5 for special reserved seats.

THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress,

443-3688. www.hideouttheatre.com.

Friday: It’s Threefer Madness time, in which three
different troupes battle for improv supremacy.

8pm. $10. Then you’ve got the Double Barrel
show, with two hot gangs of improvisers playing
goofball for your amusement. 10pm. $10.

Saturday: Start Trekkin’ Lower those deflector
shields, Federation lackey, because the skiffiest
improv show this side of the Neutral Zone is back
with all phasers set to disintegrate your funny
bone. 8pm. $10. Maestro is a fierce, multipartite
battle for supremacy among improvisers, scored
by you, the audience. Highly recommended. 10pm.
$ 10 .

VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116.

www.thevelveetaroom.com.

Spite Club The vitriol returns! John Rabon hosts
three rounds of comedian vs. comedian battle:
trivia, insults, and freestyle. Tonight: Andy Heald
vs. Dale Alexander. Thu., Oct. 2, 9pm. $5.

Matt Willis has been on your TV; yeah, after he’s
broken through your most secluded window and
politely removed his shoes. (Get a flat-screen,
that’ll thwart him.) Return the favor by breaking
into the Velv this weekend and seeing what this
yukster from Round Rock can do onstage, with
openers Todd Merriman and Charlie “Captain
Irrepressible” Watkins. Fri.-Sat., Oct. 3-4, 9:30 &
11:30pm. $5.

Open Mic Night These are your would-be comedic
neighbors, three minutes at a time: Love them;
fear them. Thursdays, 10pm.

Comedian Bill Kirchenbauer, who you may

recall from such TV shows as ABC’s Just the
Ten of Us, offers, via the new TexArts school
in Lakeway, an improv and comedy class with
a public performance in the final week. Eight
meetings. 512/852-9079. $350.
www.austinimprovguy.com.

BUT WAIT - THERE’S MORE!

KICK BUTT COMEDY There’s humor aplenty to be
had where the beverages and snacks are always
good, here in Gohring-sensei’s martial-arts-inflected
java joint. Monday Night Mash: Improv Mondays,
8pm. Open Mic Comedy Wednesdays, 8pm. Kick Butt
Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425.

LAST GAS COMEDY Stand-up comedy every
Saturday. Sat., Oct. 4, 9pm. Homer’s Bar & Grill,

1779 Wells Branch Pkwy. #114. Free.

www.lastgascomedy.com .

COMEDY/IMPROV CLASSES Mon., Oct. 6.

512/608-0526. $325. www.austinimprovguy.com.

CARLOS MENCIA The Widespread Hispanic brings
his popular brand of cross-cultural comedy and wacki-
ness to Austin’s immense drum-shaped venue for a
single night of laughs and more laughs. Fri., Oct. 3,
8pm. Frank Erwin Center ; 1701 Red River, 471-7744.
$42. www.uterwincenter.com.

THE AUSTIN COMEDY TRAINWRECK features the
best comics in Austin, so they say - right there in
the Hole, on the Drag, deep in the heart of colle-
giate Texas. Tuesdays, 10pm. Hole in the Wall , 2538
Guadalupe, 477-4747. $5.
www.myspace.com/austincomedytrainwreck.

dance

CHADDICK DANCE THEATER: SECOND
WIND This is the Austin debut of a work
that embraces real women’s lives via themes of
Harlequin novels, body image, and letting go. Artistic
Director Cheryl Craddick offers four new works. The
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company makes a spe-
cial appearance. A wine reception follows Saturday’s
performance. Thu.-Sat., Oct. 2-4, 8pm. Ballet Austin’s
AustinVentures StudioTheater , 501 W. Third. 474-8497.
$20 ($15, in advance; $10, seniors, students).
www.austix.com.

A THUMPING RAGING EXPLOSION OF LIGHT AND
MARVELOUS TEXTURE The Yellow Tape Construction
Company dives back into the performance pool with
this hourlong showcase of dance-based effusion creat-
ed by Amanda Butterfield and featuring Brazie Adamez,
Lisa del Rosario, Hannah Kenah, Erin Molson, Holly
Wissman, and that Butterfield herself. Also: Live music
by Austin’s own Masonic. Oct. 2-11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm.
Salvage Vanguard Theater ; 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886.
$15. www.yellowtape.org.

TWO LEFT FEET

ADVANCED BALLET CLASS FOR AGES 13 AND
OLDER Ten-year Tapestry resident Stacie Stalmach
brings more than 15 years of teaching and perfor-
mance experience to the class. Mondays, 6-7:30pm.
Tapestry Dance Company, 2302 Western Trails,
474-9864. $16 walk-in fee, discounts available for stu-
dents, professionals, www.tapestry.org.

DANCE INTERNATIONAL Each night features a
variety of ballroom and Latin dances; each month
sees the start of a new, progressive course. No part-
ner necessary. Sundays, 6-8pm. Dancers Workshop,
183 & Balcones Woods. Weeknights, times vary. Hills
Fitness Center ; 4615 Bee Caves Rd, 32-DANCE. Fees
vary, www.dancein.org.

FLAMENCO CLASSES Intermediate classes at the
Khabele Studio Downtown. Call Chloe for details.
923-3270.

BLUE LAPIS LIGHT: AERIAL DANCE CLASSES

Experience the thrill of aerial movement as you learn
from professionals in a safe and fun environment.

No experience necessary. Two sets of classes meet
Mon.-Wed. and Tue.-Thu. Call for details. Blue Lapis
Light Studio, 6701 Thomas Springs, 288-1929. $20
per class (package discounts available); $65 private
lessons, www.bluelapislight.org.

SCOTTISH BALLROOM DANCING Learn the ball
room dances of Scotland: lively jigs and reels and
elegant strathspeys. No partner needed, but couples
welcome. Thursdays, 7-8:30pm. Quicksilver Dance
Center, 8711 Burnet Rd. Ste. H-100, 327-2869. First
class free.

BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH TWYLA GRACE

Twyla of Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble teaches
ongoing classes in belly dance. Call or write for
details. Mon. & Wed., 8:30-9:30pm, 12687 Research
at Oak Knoll, 971-0188. www.twylabellydance.com.

AUSTIN BALLROOM DANCERS ABD sponsors ball-
room dancing with DJed music weekly, year-round.
Saturdays, 7:30-llpm. Austin Uptown Dance,

8868 Research, 989-3939. www.austinballroomdancers.org.

TAPESTRY DANCE COMPANY ACADEMY:

ONGOING CLASSES TDC offers a six-week flamenco
workshop. Other ongoing classes include: music and
movement for kids, ballet, rhythm tap, jazz, modern,
hip-hop, ballroom, and dance theatre, as well as
new classes in Bharata Natyam (traditional Indian)
and more. For all ages and experience. Check the
website for more. Flamenco workshop: Saturdays,
through Dec. 6. Tapestry Dance Company ,

2302 Western Trails, 474-9864. www.tapestry.org.

CONTACT IMPROVISATION DANCE JAMS

Participants move in and out of contact with one or
more people through a common center of gravity. All
are welcome. Tuesdays, 8-10pm; Sundays, 4:30-6pm.
Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar. $5.

EGYPTIAN BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH DRAKON

Beginners to advanced dancers are invited to learn
from one of Austin’s favorite belly dancers. Various
locations. 295-2036, 750-7037. $15 per class or six
for $75. www.desertpassion.com.

MODERN DANCE CLASSES Ellen Bartel of Spank
Dance Company leads a series of classes in modern
dance (all levels). Times and prices vary. See the
website for details. Tapestry Dance Company studios,
2302 Western Trails, www.tapestry.org.

FIRST FRIDAY CONTRA DANCING Easy and fun,
contra dancing will put you in the swing of things.

Live music by Mockingbird, dances called by Carol
Barry (Oklahoma). Fri., Oct. 3, 7:30pm, beginners les-
sons; 8-llpm, main dance. Carpenter’s Hall,

400 Josephine, 970-4919. $8 (discount for AFTM
members and first-timers).

LUCILA DANCE PRODUCTIONS: CLASSES
FORMING Belly dancing (all levels), flamenco, salsa/
merengue, hip-hop, creative movement for ages 5-10,
and tai chi. Lucila Dance Studio, 1700 S. Lamar,
416-8800. www.luciladance.com.

ESTUDIO FLAMENCO Flamenco dance classes,
centrally located. Beginner: Saturdays, noon-lpm.
Intermediate: Saturdays, l-2:30pm. 2801 W. 45th,
382-1366. Fees vary, www.estudioflamenco.com.

SOLID CHROME DANCERS Learn the Texas two-step
and Western swing in a real honky-tonk. Singles and
couples welcome. Thursdays, 8pm. Broken Spoke,
3201 S. Lamar , 417-7383. $8.

www.myspace.com/solidchromedancers.

SCANDINAVIAN DANCING Turning and improvised
couple dancing for beginning to advanced danc-
ers. No partners needed; wear slick-soled shoes.
Thursdays, 7:30-9:45pm. First Unitarian Universalist
Church, 4700 Grover, 454-0598. $3.
www.austinscandi.org.

AUSTIN BARN DANCERS: CONTRA DANCE

Traditional social dances to live music every
week. You don’t need a partner, and every dance
will be taught before you stride out on your own.
Wednesdays, 7:30pm. Hancock Recreation Center,

811 E. 41st, 453-4225. $3 donation.
www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.

NIA CLASSES The Nia technique is an energizing
workout inspired by dance, martial arts, and healing
arts. First class is free. Mon. & Fri., 9:30-10:30am;
Mon. & Thu., 6-7 pm; Sat., 10:30am. Hancock
Recreation Center ; 811 E. 41st, 922-1581. $10 each
class, www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.

AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS Learn
a variety of couples and line dances from around
the world before giving it a whirl. Beginners and

DEFINITELY
SOMETHING FUNNY
ABOUT THESE
CLASSES ...

Improv 101 The

fundamentals of improvisation are taught
by Shana Merlin, the shorter half of
top improv duo Get Up and a hella
motivational instructor. Eight meetings. Salvage
Vanguard Theater , 2803 Manor Rd. $150.
www.merlin-works.com.

experienced dancers welcome. No partner required.
Saturdays, 7:30pm (lessons); 8:15-llpm (open
dance). Hancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st,
481-9362. $5. www.aifd.ee.

KICK BUTT BLUES DANCE The latest in a long line
(column?) of participatory dancing, to what we can
only imagine are some ass-kickin’ blues for you to
shake your booty to! Food and beverages available.
Fridays (except third Friday each month), 9pm-lam.
Kick Butt Coffee , 5775 Airport #725, 736-2662. $5.
www.kickbuttcoffee.com .

SPEAKEASY: SALSA LESSONS Combining the clas-
sic sultry moves and one of Austin’s fave hangouts
with live Latin music. Wednesdays, 9pm. Speakeasy,
412 Congress, 476-8017. Free.
www.speakeasyaustin.com.

FOUR ON THE FLOOR: CLASSES Ongoing classes
for various levels of expertise in swing and Lindy Hop
culminate in a weekly dance. New classes usually
start the first Tuesday of the new month. Tuesdays,
7pm (classes), 9:30pm (open dance). Texas Federation
of Women’s Clubs Ballroom , 2312 San Gabriel,
453-3889. Prices vary, www.fouronthefloor.com.

AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE A couple hundred
swingers hit the dance floor once a week for DJ-spun
sounds of past blasts. A beginners’ lesson starts
the evening. Thursdays, 8pm-12mid. Texas Federation
of Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel,
476-5845. $5 ($2, members).
www.austinswingsyndicate.org.

classical

music

OPENING

CONSPIRARE: HOME Conspirare’s opening concert
features a collage program of classical and tradition-
al melodies, spirituals and plainsongs, songs from
Broadway, and pop hits. Thirty singers are joined by
guest instrumentalists. Oct. 3-5. Fri.-Sat., 8pm, St.
Martin’s Lutheran Church, 606 W. 15th. Sun., 2:30pm,
Northwest Hills United Methodist Church, 7050 Village
Center. 476-5775. $26-40. www.conspirare.org.

GOLDEN HORNET PROJECT: BIG BAND FRENZY

2 Master collaborators Graham Reynolds and Peter
Stopschinski present their major concert for 2008,
featuring trumpets, trombones, saxes, guitar, piano,
bass, Brannen Temple on drums, and compositions
by Stopschinski, Reynolds, Adrian Quesada of Grupo
Fantasma, and Duke Ellington. Sat., Oct. 4, sunset.
Wooldridge Square Park, 900 Guadalupe , 477-1566.
Free, www.goldenhornet.org.

AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: ELIOT FISK
& ANGEL ROMERO As individuals, Fisk and Romero
ignite the classical guitar world with their performanc-
es; here, they work as a new duo, so look for musi-
cal fireworks aplenty. Sat., Oct. 4, 8pm. Northwest
Hills United Methodist Church, 7050 Village Center ;
300-2247. $40-60 ($30, ACGS members, seniors, stu-
dents). www.austinclassicalguitar.org.

UT SCHOOL OF MUSIC Great Organ Series: Pierre
Pincemaille Pincemaille has been titular organist of
the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint-Denis since 1987 and
has won multitudinous prizes for his performances.
Sun., Oct. 5, 4pm. Bates Recital Hall. 471-5401. $15
($10, seniors, UT faculty/staff; $5, students).
www.music.utexas.edu.

AUSTIN SYMPHONIC BAND: FALL CONCERT IN
THE PARK Marches, show tunes, and other music
the whole family will enjoy: Picnic on the hillside.

Sun., Oct. 5, 7pm. Zilker Park Hillside Theater,

2206 William Barton Dr., 345-7420. Free, www.asband.org.

AUSTIN SYMPHONY: HALLOWEEN CHILDREN’S
CONCERT Kids of all ages are introduced to the won-
ders of live orchestral music in a “creepy and crawly,
yet not too spooky for the little ones” concert, which
features music from “Peter and the Wolf,” “Little Red
Riding Hood,” and more. Wear costumes! Sun.,

Oct. 5, 2pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts,

701 W. Riverside , 476-6064. $12 ($8, children).
www.austinsymphony.org.

SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY The Southwestern
Music Department presents guest artists Brian L.
Bowman, euphonium, and Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano,
performing works that range from sacred music to
opera and art songs to folk songs. Mon., Oct. 6,

7pm. Alma Thomas Theatre, Southwestern University,
Georgetown. 512/863-1504. Free.
www.ssfa.southwestern.edu .

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CALENDAR (community sports ARTS FILM music) LISTINGS

Blackbird

Hyde Park Theatre,
through Oct. 11

Running time: 1 hr, 20 min

A lot of the pub-
licity for Blackbird
has said very little
about the plot for
fear of giving away
the surprise. That
surprise shows up
only 10 minutes into
the play, however.

Nobody in the audi-
ence left early on
the night I attended,
so here goes.

As the lights come up, we see that Una
has just shown up at Ray’s workplace. He’s
shocked to see her. They had an affair 15
years ago, and they haven’t seen each
other since. Catch: There’s an obvious age
discrepancy between the two actors. Una
(Xochitl Romero) looks about 25. Ray (Hyde
Park Theatre Artistic Director Ken Webster)
is something like 40 or 50. That would
mean ... mid-20s minus 15 ... mental math
... uh oh. Miscasting?

Nope. Great casting. Ray committed
statutory rape of a minor when Una was 12.
Surprise!

Well, Ray is surprised, anyway. We now
have 70 minutes to go in which Una shall
dig, dig, dig at Ray to learn why he did what
he did and what went wrong to ruin her life.
Ray will dig back at her, then dig deep inside
himself to come up with an answer for any
of it. If you believe him, he doesn’t really
know what happened, even after all this
time. He attempts to answer Una’s ques-
tions, but satisfaction is hard to come by.

Audience members can decide for them-
selves how they feel about the humanizing
of a child molester. Critically speaking,
though, the script just doesn’t hold water.
Why would a victim hear about her abuser
15 years later, then track him down so she
can spend time alone in a room with him?
Why would she wear some very sexy high
heels to do it? Every person processes
trauma in his or her own way, but the script
doesn’t show how or why Una became
the sort of person who would put herself
through hell a second time just to get a
few answers.

Furthermore, the script has some struc-
tural faults. The aforementioned surprise
arrives so soon that there is little momen-

tum to get through the rest of the show.

The damage has already been done, and it’s
hard to feel strongly about the human con-
sequences of blowing Ray’s cover in his new
life. Playwright David Harrower also writes
himself into a corner more than once, with
nothing to do but lurch to another subject or
else end the play.

This isn’t to say that the production team
doesn’t do some fine work. Hyde Park
Theatre and Capital T Theatre Company
joined forces for this show, with Capital T
Artistic Director Mark Pickell directing and
Hyde Park lending its considerable experi-
ence and muscle to the effort. Webster is
one of the strongest and most consistent
performers in Austin, and he does just fine
here. But for all that an affordable, two-char-
acter, one-set play with a complex situation
is supposed to be a formula for an actor-
producer’s victory dance, the script isn’t a
sufficient vehicle for his talents. His co-star,
Romero, is a Master of Fine Arts acting
student at the University of Texas, and while
she shows promise, at present she hangs
on to every “s" and “f” sound with a death
grip that distracts from the depth of feeling
of which she’s capable.

The two struggle a bit with Harrower’s
style, a Mamet-esque rush of stops and
starts interspersed with long, graphic mono-
logues. It’s fun to see characters interrupt-
ing each other on stage, but it works better
when an actor knows what he or she was
about to say next and doesn’t just stop talk-
ing because the cue happened.

Both of the companies involved in
Blackbird are strong groups capable of
great work. The major element lacking
this time was a good script deserving of
their talents. - Elizabeth Cobbe

visual arts

EVENTS

WEST END GALLERY NIGHT: FIRST THURSDAY

On the first Thursday of each month, enjoy nine gal-
leries within walking distance of ample parking, all
dolled up and awaiting your visit on this day in par-
ticular. Venues include Art on 5th, F8 Gallery, Haven
Gallery, Lotus Gallery, Russell Collection, Stephen
L. Clark Gallery, Sterling Images, Wally Workman
Gallery. See website for gallery map. Thu., Oct. 2,
6-8pm. 478-4440. www.artaustin.org/westend.htm.

WILLOW ARTS OPEN HOUSE Those excellent art-
ists Carrie Kenny, Jacqueline May, Deanna Miesch,
and Sarah Sloan are pleased to welcome you to their
new studios with this art-filled garden party. Fri.,

Oct. 3, 6:30-9:30pm. 1617 Willow.

BLANTON MUSEUM: REIMAGINING SPACE The

exhibition focused on the Park Place Gallery Group in
1960s New York continues with a curator’s tour.

Thu., Oct. 2, 12:30pm. MLK & Congress, 471-7324.

www.blantonmuseum.org.

JAPONICA SALON: JAPANESE TEXTILES From
the sensuality of the kimono and obi to the earthy
texture of hemp noren and the geometric simplicity
of sashiko, the Japanese are renowned masters of
textile arts. Mon., Oct. 6, 7-9pm. Casa de Luz,

1701 Toomey, 476-2535. www.casadeluz.org.

HARRY RANSOM CENTER Here are events related
to the “Mystique of the Archive” and “Cabinet of
Drawings” exhibitions. Drawing as Looking, Thinking,
Touching Thu., Oct. 9, 7pm. 300 W. 21st, 471-8944.

www.hrc.utexas.edu.

PREVIEW SCREENING: EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN

IS TV It’s a new public access series created in part
by local artist collective Totally Wreck Production
Institute. It’s a neofuture fringe community with
active art, music, performance, and video experimen-
tation via the medium of television. Live performance
by dance diva Tummy Toast, animation by Paper Rad,
music by DJ Jaunty, and mucho mas. Sat., Oct. 4,
8-10pm. 1312 E. Cesar Chavez Ste. B. Free.
www.totallywreck.org/tv.

REAL GALLERY: SUSAN WILLIAMS Photographs
featuring Italy, the Caribbean, and the Pacific
Northwest. Reception: Sat., Oct. 4, 2-6pm. Exhibition:
Through Oct. 5. 2824 Real, 775-0458.

www.artworksbykathiherrin.com.

OPENING

MEXIC ARTE: EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY

This exhibition series, in its 13th year, features young
Latino artists who present their visions in a re-exam-
ination of social and aesthetic norms via new and
experimental media. Reception: Fri., Oct. 3, 7-9pm.
Exhibition: Through Nov. 9. 419 Congress, 480-9373.
www.mexic-artemuseum.org.

ART ON 5TH: THE ART OF HESSAM features
Iranian artist Hessam Abrishami’s whimsical figura-
tive works. Reception: Fri., Oct. 3, 6-9pm. Exhibition:
Through Oct. 4. 1501 W. Fifth, 481-1111.

www.arton5th.com.

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF AUSTIN: ART
ACROSS THE AMERICAS The Austin Lima Sister
Cities Committee hosts a fundraiser and exhibition
for El Centro Para Madres Adolescentes that features
works of Peruvian painters and sculptors. Reception:
Sat., Oct. 4, 6-9pm. Exhibition: Through Oct. 31.

201 E. Second.

LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY: SUSAN COLLIS The

artist’s “Why Did I Think This Was a Good Idea?” will
be the inaugural exhibition in this newest Reynolds
space. Appropriate, as Collis’ pieces disguise them-
selves as ordinary tools used for constructing, clean-
ing, and hanging an art exhibition. Seriously. Check it
out. Reception: Sat., Oct. 4, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through
Nov. 15. 360 Nueces, 215-4965. www.lorareynolds.com.

WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: HONORA JACOB

New paintings from this accomplished artist. Two-
word review here in the listings? OK: beautiful, haunt-
ing. Especially haunting, yeah. Reception: Sat., Oct.

4, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through Oct. 29. 1202 W. Sixth,

4 72-7428. www.wallyworkmangallery.com .

BIG MEDIUM: INFER GENIUS: SIGHTLESS
ITALIANS This is Heather Tolleson’s reinterpretation
of an installation, utilizing recycled/found objects,
that she’s previouly presented in Marfa and San
Marcos. Reception: Sat., Oct. 4, 7-llpm. Exhibition:
Through Oct. 31. 5305 Bolm. www.comefortheblonde.com.

CLOSING

ART PALACE: FICTITIOUS REALITIES, REALISTIC
FICTIONS This two-person show features the sculp-
tural work of Elaine Bradford and Seth Mittag, who
draw upon children’s literature and childhood memo-
ries, respectively, to produce their compelling art.
Through Oct. 8. 2109 Cesar Chavez, 496-0687.
www.artpalacegallery.com.

STEPHEN L. CLARK GALLERY: SEAN PERRY

Gorgeous new photography in his “Fairgrounds”
from this fine artist. Through Oct. 8. 1101 W. Sixth,
477-0828 . www.cowboyfineartphotographs.com .

GALLERY LOMBARDI: I’M WATCHING MY
STORIES Paintings, gouaches, and drawings curat-
ed by Rachel Koper. The works often share a clean
illustrated style, humor, and extensive narratives.
Through Oct. 5. 602 W. Seventh Ste. A, 481-1088.
www.gallerylombardi.com.

CRL: FALL FACULTY EXHIBITION This Creative
Research Laboratory show features recent work by
UT faculty artists in studio art, art education, and
design. Through Oct. 4. 2830 E. MLK, 322-2099. Free.

uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab.

ONGOING

EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of Joshua
Garcia and others. 12400 Amherst #102, 825-8577.

www.eyecontactart.com .

VANISHING AUSTIN This exhibition of photographs
by Jann Alexander documents Austin’s most iconic
old places juxtaposed against the New Urbanism.
Through Oct. 31. 5900 W. Slaughter, 288-8825. Free.

www.fastframe.com.

AUSTIN GALLERIES: 20TH CENTURY MASTERS

Original lithographs, etchings, intaglios, and screen
prints by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalf, Pablo Picasso,
and more. 1219 W. Sixth.

GALLERY SHOAL CREEK: CARROLL COLLIER The

artist celebrates his long career (and his 85th birth-
day!) with this show of paintings in his realistic yet
dreamlike style. Through Oct. 18. 2905 San Gabriel
#101, 454-9560. www.galleryshoalcreek.com.

CORONADO STUDIOS The Serie Project, a nonprofit
Latino arts organization hosted by Coronado Studios,
produces, promotes, and exhibits serigraph prints
created by diverse artists. 6601 Felix, 385-3591.

www.serieproject.org.

GAY FAY KELLY ART: MO SCOLLAN New works by
Scollan, Randy Ehrlich, and Talbot. Call for appoint-
ment and location. 917-0133.

AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART: MODERN ART,
MODERN LIVES This two-part show explores how
modern and contemporary artists merge art and
life, with “19th and 20th Century Artists at the
Turn of the Century,” curated by James Housefield,
and “Where Are We Going? Contemporary Artists
Address Issues of the 21st Century,” curated
by Dana Friis-Hansen. It’s an informative and
eye-delighting exhibition in AMOA’s big build-
ing Downtown. Through Nov. 2. 823 Congress,
495-9224. www.amoa.org.

ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY is featuring work by
artists from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paint-
ings by Augustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, and
Pablo Taboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; and
metal sculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos,
457-0171. www.pablotaboadastudio.com.

ARTHOUSE: RESET/PLAY Guest curators Marcin
Ramocki and Paul Slocum present an exhibition
that attempts a critical exploration of contempo-
rary art inspired by video games and features a
formidable group of international artists. Through
Nov. 2. 700 Congress, 453-5312. Free.
www.arthousetexas.org.

ARTSPOKEN GALLERY: FROM A TO Z Photographs
by Bill Oakey and Jack Marshall, glasswork by Kim
Brill. 1507 W. Koenig, 589-2905. www.artspoken.com.

AUSTIN ART GLASS This glassblowing studio and
gallery offers functional and decorative glass art, as
well as glassblowing classes and free demonstra-
tions. 1608 S. Congress, 916-4527.

www.austinartglass.com.

LAGUNA GLORIA: GALERIE DE L’ART DES JEUNES

Here’s the first exhibition of young (ages 12-14) stu-
dents’ art in the Art School Gallery. Through Oct. 12.
3809 W. 35th, 458-8191. Free, www.amoa.org.

BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmade
glass art and jewelry. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770.
www.austinbluemoon.com.

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COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC

BIG MEDIUM: DISCRETE SPACE This new show
features work by Austin artists Leslie Mutchler, Sam
Sanford, and Jeannie McKetta. Through Nov. 2.

5305 Bolm.

THE CATHEDRAL OF JUNK is approximately 60 tons
of junk wired together over 15 years to form intricate
towers and rooms in the back yard of a South Austin
home. Hours: Sundays , llam-2pm, or by appt.

4422 Lareina, 299-7413. www.keepaustinweird.com.

D BERMAN GALLERY: JEFFRY DELL Here’s a new
collection of serigraphs so well-rendered by this
master of the art that, sometimes, they don’t even
look like prints. They do look strange and compelling,
though, the hairy surreal mixed with the bald mun-
dane, in this show called “Big Pelt.” Through Nov. 1.
1701 Guadalupe , 477-8877. www.dbermangallery.com.

DAVIS GALLERY: PAST: PAUSED “An Intimate Look
Into an Era,” produced by Matthew Fuller, features
iconic photographs taken by the artist’s grandfather
during the 1950s. “China Paused” presents pho-
tographs by Faustinus Deraet, who, freed from the
precision of today’s digital cameras, dazzles us with
unexpected visions of China. Through Oct. 11.

837 W. 12th, 477-4929. www.davisgalleryaustin.com.

DIBONA STUDIO Oil paintings and “sculptural tat-
toos” by Joyce DiBona. 404 W. Milton , 851-2646.

FLATBED PRESS GALLERY: THE POLITICS OF WAR

is a new series of large, evocative etchings, litho-
graphs, and more by Robert Levers and Chris Reno.
Through Nov. 4. 2830 E. MLK, 477-9328.

www.flatbedpress.com .

FRANCOIS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 309-B Bowie,
320-0072.

HARRY RANSOM CENTER: THE MYSTIQUE OF THE
ARCHIVE The HRC’s newest exhibition draws on the
center’s extensive holdings to provide a comprehen-
sive look at archives, the archival process, and the
culture surrounding archives. Literary documents!

A video of Mike Wallace interviewing Salvador Dalf!
Thrills! Chills! Acid-free paper! Through Jan. 4.

300 W. 21st, 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu.

SCREENED EXPRESSIONS: SERIE PROJECT
RETROSPECTIVE On display: Selected prints from
among the 80 artists who have participated in
the project (founded by Sam Coronado) during the
last decade and a half. Through Nov. 29. Mexican
American Cultural Center , 600 River St., 478-6222.
www.cityofaustin.org/macc.

MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART presents an eclectic
selection of African and African-American artwork.
6406 N. 1-35 #2800, 323-6901. www.mitchie.com.

DIVERSEARTS: FACING EAST “48 Hours in the Life
of East Austin Summer 2008” features photogra-
phy and film captured during the recent July Fourth
weekend by Greg Broseus, Francis Cruzada, Martha
Grenon, Peter Staats, Jessy Price, Eric Chapelle, and
Steve Gaber. New East Gallery, 1601 E. Fifth #106,
477-9438. www.diversearts.org.

SLUGFEST GALLERY: URBAN PORTRAITS Colorful
new prints by artist Yuji Hiratsuka adorn the walls
at this fierce little gallery off MLK. Through Oct. 19.
1906 Miriam, 477-7204. www.slugfestprints.com.

SOUTH AUSTIN MUSEUM OF POPULAR CULTURE:
FABLE RECORDS’ 30 YEARS OF AUSTIN JAZZ
AND FUNK Austin’s favorite south-side museum has
worked with the king and queen of Fable Records
to delve into the archive of materials to amass this
comprehensive display of gig posters, album covers,
photographs, press clippings, and advertisements.
Through Nov. 1. 1516-B S. Lamar, 440-8318.
www.awhq.com.

SPACES

ABSTRACTS TO ACORNS Photography by Deana
Newcomb. Through Nov. 3. 101 W. Sixth, 477-7884.

LEAGUE STUDIO: WEFUSE Martha and Mindy
League exhibit original oil paintings on canvas.
Through Dec. 6. 401 Congress, 473-4343.
www.frostbank.com .

HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL WESTGATE: HEATHER
CHRISTOFERO AND ROBBIN ROBERTSON POLTER

Oct. 5-Nov. 11. 4521 West Gate Blvd ., 899-2700.

www.austinartcoop.com .

PACIUGO GELATO: SHELLY YATES & VANESSA
LIVELY Reception: Sun., Oct. 5, 2-4pm. Exhibition:
Through Oct. 241 W. Second, 474-7600. paciugo.com.

ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival ban-
ners, and other tributes to U.S. popular culture, by
Todd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 442-6366.

www.roadhouserelics.com

SOCO CARE & REHABILITATION CENTER Residents
of the center will display their paintings. Through Nov.
1. 304 E. Seventh , 472-1196. www.stdave.org.

WESTS Artwork by Dan-Ramone Vivan Chavez,

Raquel Reyes, and others. 408 Josephine.

CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES

THE AUSTIN POLYMER CLAY GUILD meets on the
first Saturday of each month. Visitors welcome. See
website for details. Sat., Oct. 4, 2-4:30pm. Yarborough
Branch Library, 2200 Hancock.

www.austinpolymerclay.com.

ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN: NEED COLLECTORS? All

applications must be submitted online. Deadline:

Oct. 31. $35. www.zapplication.org.

SKETCHING IN THE GALLERIES Thu., Oct. 2.
512-495-9224. Free with admission, www.amoa.org.

AIPP: NORTHWEST RECREATION CENTER
EXPANSION You’ll need to submit a letter of interest
with qualifications for this public-art budgeted project
of $47,000. See website for details. Deadline:

Sat., Oct. 19. 301 W. Second , 974-9314.
www.cityofaustin.org/aipp.

AUSTIN SCHOOL OF FILM: ANIMATE ON A REAL
MOVIE! Work side by side with professional anima-
tors in this 12-week program. At the end of the
class, all animators who participate in the program
will be recognized in the film credits. 906 E. Fifth
#106, 236-8877. www.austinfilmschool.org.

HELIOS KILN GLASS STUDIO: CLASSES AND
DEMONSTRATIONS Learn while they burn at this
professional studio. 10700 Anderson Mill Rd.,
996-0960. www.heliosglass.com.

litera

READINGS, SIGNINGS,

AND PERFORMANCES

GEORGE RODRIGUE The famous Cajun artist of blue
dogs is back with his latest book of portraits in Blue
Dog Speaks. He’ll create one right there, just before
he signs his books. Wed., Oct. 8, 7pm. BookPeople,
603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

JEANETTE WALLS DISCUSSES “THE GLASS
CASTLE” Tue., Oct. 7. 512/637-5648. Free.
www.stedwards.edu.

ART SPIEGELMAN The Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of Maus, the graphic novel that left no doubt about
the power and importance of the comic book as
social and artistic signifier, offers his extraordinary
memoir, Breakdowns. Highly recommended. Tue., Oct.
7, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar , 472-5050.
www.bookpeople.com.

CLIFFORD MARK projects a metaphysical presence
in his novel Ecumensus: The Next Vision. Sun.,

Oct. 5, 2pm. Barnes & Noble Arboretum ,

10000 Research #158, 418-8985.

TEXAS NAFAS presents part two of the power and
passion of Austin’s slam scene with poetry from
New Soul, Austin Poetry Slam, and Austin Under
21 Slam. This program is dedicated to the memory
of the beloved Shannon Leigh. Call Public Access
Community Television for exact air times. Saturdays,
on Channel 16. 478-6800 xlO.

REBECCA HALE reveals the kooky mystery of How to
Wash a Cat. Sat., Oct. 4, noon. Barnes & Noble South,
5601 Brodie, 892-3493.

LETTERS TO THE WORLD Here’s a reading by
Austin poets featured in the Letters to the World
anthology: Alicia Zavala Galvan, Judy Jensen,
Katherine Durham Oldmixon, D’Arcy Randall, and
Abe Louise Young. Sat., Oct. 4, 7pm. BookWoman,
5501 N. Lamar Ste. A-105, 472-2785. Free.
www.ebookwoman.com .

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN goes novelistic in his darkly
comedic first novel, Downtown Owl, a shadow pop-
culture take on his essay collections Sex, Drugs and
Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live. Shall we say
it’s a hoot? Sat., Oct. 4, 3pm. BookPeople,

603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI lines 1,500 people up,
so he can sign copies of their version in the lat-
est of his Eragon series, Brisingr. How do you spell
madhouse? Buy your books early, and get in line.
Perhaps breathing fire will help you. Fri., Oct. 3, 4pm.
BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar , 472-5050.
www.bookpeople.com.

FRANK WILDERSON III presents his Incognegro: A
Memoir of Exile and Apartheid as part of Independent
Publishers, Radical Academics: The Last Word on
Social Justice, sponsored UT’s Center for African-
American Studies. Highly recommended. Fri., Oct. 3,
3pm. Follett’s Intellectual Property , 2402 Guadalupe,
478-000 7. www.intellectualpropertyaustin.com .

AIMEE NEZHIKUMATATHIL reads from her prize-
winning book, At the Drive-In Volcano. Recommended.
Thu., Oct. 2, 7pm. ACC South Austin Campus,

1820 W. Stassney.

SAM GOSLING sniffs out your secrets in his Snoop:
What Your Stuff Says About You. The UT psych pro-
fessor shows just how the bits and pieces of our
everyday life, our home, our workspace, our favorite
music, our style of dress, and even our trash can
reveal more about us than we ever imagined. Thu.,
Oct. 2, 6:30pm. Follett's Intellectual Property, 2402
Guadalupe, 478-0007. www.intellectualpropertyaustin.
com.

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH is the creator of the
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. This read-
ing at the Paramount should sell out fast. Tickets
also available at BookPeople and branches of the
Austin Public Library. Thu., Oct. 2, 8pm. Paramount
Theatre , 713 Congress, 472-5470.
www.austintheatrealliance.org.

WRITING/BOOK GROUPS

SOUTH AUSTIN GROUP hangs out in The Shack
by William P Young. Mon., Oct. 6, 1:30pm. Barnes &
Noble South, 5601 Brodie, 892-3493.

THE UTTER READING SERIES always features fresh
creme from both Austin’s big league and farm teams
of poetry and prose. Mon., Oct. 6, 7pm. BookPeople,
603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

7% SOLUTION CLUB delves into the literary myster-
ies of bookselling and satanism in Club Dumas by
Arturo Perez-Reverte. Mon., Oct. 6, 7pm. BookPeople ,
603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

THE SOUTH CONGRESS SALON is hosted by poet
Jena Gessaman and features opinionated guests
leading social, political, and literary discussions on
various topics. Also: constructive feedback for writers
of all genres. Sundays, 5-7pm. Botticelli’s,

1321 S. Congress, 916-1315. www.digthatnoise.com.

HOWSON CLUB teases The Abstinence Teacher by
Tom Perrotta. Thu., Oct. 2, 7-8pm. Howson Library,
2500 Exposition, 472-3584.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION GROUP goes Home by
Marilynne Robinson. Mon., Oct. 6, 7-8pm. Little City,
916 Congress, 476-2489. www.littlecity.com.

OPEN MICS

EXPRESSIONS: MYSTIC POETS Garrison Martt and
the Past Poetry Project present an evening of mystic
poets including Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia, Miraba, and John
Berry. Bring a plate for pot luck and cans for Poets
Pantry. All ages reading. Children welcomed. Round
robin follows. Sat., Oct. 4, 7pm. Austin Bahai Center,
2215 E.M. Franklin, 926-8880.

MONDAY NIGHT CAFFEINE for poets, singer
songwriters, and storytellers. Hosted by Edgar
Pace. Mondays, 7-10pm. Cafe Caffeine, 909 W. Mary,
447-9473. www.cafecaffeine.com.

GENUINE JOE Make some noise, or just sit and
enjoy the enchanting air of North Austin. All acts
welcome. No cover songs. Thursdays, 7:30-10pm.
Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson,
220-1576. www.genuinejoe.com.

HIDEOUT IN FULL AUTUMNAL COLOR is hosted
by Thom the World Poet. Next up is Danny Strack
launching three new books. Bring canned food for
Poets Pantry. Mondays, 7 -10pm. The Hideout Theatre,
617 Congress, 476-0473. $2 (or canned food for
Poets Pantry), www.hideouttheatre.com.

HOT MAMA’S OPEN MIC Food, beer, wine, and caf-
feine available. Tuesdays, 7:30-9pm. Hot Mama’s
Espresso Bar ; 2401 E. Sixth, 476-6262.

www.myspace.com/hotmamasespresso.

SPOKEN AND HEARD is co-hosted by Stacey
Shea and Element 615. Uncensored round robin.
Sundays, 7-9pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725,
454-5425. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.

RUTA MAYA POETRY is one of the longest running
weekly open mics in Texas. No cover. Uncensored.
Hosted by David Bates. Tuesdays, 6-9pm. Ruta Maya,
3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637.

www.rmpoetryaustin.com.

THE AUSTIN POETRY SLAM Mike Henry and a
rotating group of slam ninjas captain the crew that
has all the best of stand-up, porno theatre, rock
& roll, and phone sex rolled into one cosmic-heat
blast of an evening. Open sign-up, 12 poets per
week. $100 cash prizes. Wednesdays, 8pm. Scoot
Inn & Bier Garten, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200.
www.austinslam.com.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

POETRY IN THE ARTS The journal Ardent seeks
poetry with strong emotion. Reading fee: $3 (for
up to three poems). Line limit: 32. Send to: Dillon
McKinsey, Ardent Editor , 1909 Hollow Ridge Dr., Cedar
Park, TX 78613. Although, actually, e-mail submission
is preferred: rimer777@gmail.com.

BORDERLANDS: TEXAS POETRY REVIEW is calling
for submissions of ekphrasic poetry (poetry written in
response to viewing art) for its Spring 2009 edition.
Limit submission to four poems. No submission fee.
Mail submissions with cover letter to: Borderlands,

PO Box 33096, Austin , TX 78764. Deadline: Dec. 15.
www.borderlands.org.

IN THE FLESH AUSTIN: EROTIC WRITING FOR
PUBLIC READING Bloggers, journalists, poets,
autobiopornofictionographers, and others are invited
to submit work for presentation at an evening of
erotic readings. You’ll need to be willing to read
your work aloud in public, too. Deadline: Oct. 30.
Through Oct. 29. www.myspace.com/eroticreadingaustin.

MISCELLANEOUS

MORE POETRY! & if the songs begin there was
always this singing. Keats in a sailboat white as
seagulls gone thick foam of summer floating in a
bowl; o sweetly drip sharp shouts hallo, boys, butter
caps pushing a honey thick philosophy girls spilling
creme on their thighs; tin calliopes turn the grind of
waves stones become salt oily with reach , with urge,
with what is essential (longing) or a bride undresses &
a ghost ship moans - o how shaded, his eyes peel the
horizon; sipping a cup of light with a sailor drowned .
Namaste. Vaya con dios.

POEM OF THE ISSUE

here’s your plague of snakes

inside your sacred home

here’s your pox of frogs

hopping from the fetid bayou

here’s your school of fish

snared in your hurricane fence

it all feels like death

when you haven’t slept for a week

when you’re crying like a fucking baby

when there’s no electricity

and the smell of a generator

brings to mind the nightmarish memory

of a boat cruising down Texas Avenue

- Jason Crowson, from “Stormy Times”

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Blindness

D: Fernando Meireilles; with Julianne Moore, Mark
Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia
Bernal, Yusuke Iseya, Don McKellar, Yoshino
Kimura, Maury Chaykin. (R, 120 min.)

Blindness opened Cannes this year, and it didn’t do well
there. The print included a supposedly disastrous voiceover by
Glover (since stripped from the final cut), and it was perhaps

undone by expectations that it might be a
different kind of movie - a Big Idea kind of
movie. It’s an adaptation of the 1995 novel
by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, and
at first blush it seems to fall into the same
mold as Children of Men: a serious film
that uses the sci-fi premise of a near-future
dystopia to comment on the modern-day dys-
topia already upon us. But the trouble with
expectations is that they tend to numb one
to what’s really at hand. Blindness, the film,
pushes the Big Ideas aside for a brutalizing
exploration into the hard fact that humans,
in the right circumstances, will turn des-
perate and even barbarous. The catalyst is
an outbreak of blindness in a city that is
intentionally vague, its citizens casually mul-
tinational (as is its terrific cast, which does
a lot within the restrictions of limited screen
time). Ruffalo plays an ophthalmologist who
unknowingly spreads the infectious disease
from its first case to a waiting room full
of patients and on to concentric circles of
panicky outbreak. None of the characters
are named; they are listed in the credits,
as in the source novel, with identifiers like
the Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife. The latter
(played by Moore) is introduced whipping
into submission a tiramisu for her distracted
husband. When he wakes in the morning
with the “white sickness” (the blindness is
unique in that the infected see white, rather
than black), she makes a rash decision to
feign blindness, too, in order to join him
in the government-issued quarantine. (One
senses the decision was borne as much
from helplessness as self-sacrifice.) The sick
are shipped off to an abandoned insane asy-
lum and more or less left to fend for them-

selves (impossible to watch without thinking
of the Superdome), and there the secretly
sighted Doctor’s Wife becomes witness to
unending awfulness as conditions dete-
riorate and a turf war ensues. We become
witness, too, and it’s a long, hard slough:
Meireilles - no stranger to harsh climes, hav-
ing previously touched down in the favelas
of Rio de Janeiro ( City of God) and a Kenya
ravaged by disease and Big Pharma ( The
Constant Gardener) - unflinchingly charts
every slipped rung down to the bottomest
depths of human degradation. Frequent
cuts to white screen aside, there is very
little lightness here. Meireilles plays on
that whiteness, in one instance using it to
soft-shoe a morally complicated sex scene,
then abruptly cutting to full-color to expose
it for what it really is, which is the desperate
rutting of the doomed. There are no pulled
punches here, and within that same mor-
ally complicated universe, Meireilles and
screenwriter Don McKellar (who co-stars)
demonstrate a scope and a sensibility
expansive enough to meet every devil with
some sympathy and every joy with commen-
surate sorrow. All this, I think, would be
unbearable without Moore, who masterfully
characterizes the devoted wife’s metamor-
phosis into a heroicism both unwanted
and unheralded. It’s a rattling, heartrending
performance in, yes, a long, hard slough of
a film - one that is well worth the journey, if
not a repeat trip. - Kimberley Jones

Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek
Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria,

CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland,
Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown
North, Westgate

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reviews

AN AMERICAN CAROL

D: David Zucker; with Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer,
Leslie Nielsen, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, James Woods.
(PG-13, 83 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. Zucker,
who started his career with spoofs like
Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane!, now
turns his attention to Hollywood’s left-
wingers. In this parody, a cynical, anti-
American filmmaker who’s engaged in a
campaign to make the Fourth of July illegal
is visited by three ghosts who show him
the true meaning of America. The film stars
Chris Farley’s brother Kevin, as a Michael
Moore doppelganger. - Marjorie Baumgarten
CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round
Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway,
Metropolitan, Tinseltown North

APPALOOSA D: Ed Harris; with Harris,

Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons,
Timothy Spall. (R, 114 min.)

We’ve heard tell about the rebirth of the
Western at least since Clint Eastwood’s
vicious Unforgiven 16 years ago, but since
the genre never truly died in the first place
there’s no need to flog that horse here.
(Maybe it’s best to look at the Western as
something undead, or occasionally reani-
mated, like Sam Raimi’s hyperactive The
Quick and the Dead or this year’s comic-
epic South Korean import The Good , the
Bad , and the Weird.) Every generation gets
the Western it deserves, and Appaloosa is
a suitable slow burn punctuated by sud-
den acts of violence; it fairly oozes off the
screen like bloodied molasses, and then,
heated, bubbles up and over, all smoke and
fire and endless clouds of New Mexico dust.
It’s 1882, and lawmen-for-hire Virgil Cole
(Harris) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen) arrive
in the titular township, a barely conceived
place of wood and dirt and whiskey stuck to
the arid hills and gullies like a bloodstain in
a feedlot. They come at the town council’s
request: A scheming, would-be cattle baron
by the name of Bragg (Irons, resplendent in
his villain’s finery and subtexting the inher-
ent dangers of a nascent capitalist system
on the range) has murdered the sheriff and
his deputies and must be brought to justice,
which, for Cole and Hitch, means finding
a witness to testify against him, and then
keeping both witness and Bragg alive long
enough for the traveling jurisprudence to
arrive in town to deliver the rule of law. No
easy task, that, and it’s complicated by the
arrival in town of a comely, piano-playing
widow, Allie French (Zellweger, wearing a
permanent aw-shucks smile), who plays
Virgil’s heart like a seasoned pro. She’s an
opportunist in a place with few opportuni-
ties (for ladies it’s love or death, take your
pick). Harris, directing from an adaptation of
Robert Parker’s novel, cuts a leathery, desic-
cated figure as the love-blinded Virgil, lacon-
ically eloquent, forever groping for the right
word (which his partner often supplies, a
comic grace note in a serious film) but whis-
pering his gun out of its holster with the
blunt plain speaking of a born shootist. All
three men look like graven images, but only

Harris’ eyes twinkle with anything approach-
ing mischief. He enjoys his work maybe one
bullet too much, and so when a chance at
a real life appears to arrive, he reaches for
it with his gun hand. He’s got to get the
lead out to get the lead into someone else,
but his heart gets in the way. Even Shane,
who is subtlely mirrored here by Mortensen,
knew that spelled trouble. - Marc Savlov
★★★ Alamo Drafthouse South, Barton Creek
Square, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,
Dobie, Gateway, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown
South

BATTLE IN SEATTLE

D: Stuart Townsend; with Martin Henderson, Michelle
Rodriguez, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron, Ray Liotta,
Connie Nielsen, Andre Benjamin, Joshua Jackson.

(R, 100 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. This film,
which had its American premiere at the
last South by Southwest Film Festival,
attempts to make a Medium Cool style film
that embeds a fictional story within real
events. In this case, it’s the World Trade
Organization meeting that occurred in
Seattle in 1999 and sparked widespread
protests. The protests form the background
for stories about regular Seattle residents
caught in the melee. - Marjorie Baumgarten
Arbor

BEVERLY HILLS

CHIHUAHUA D: Raja Gosnell; with Piper
Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Urie; with the voices
of Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez, Cheech
Marin, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Edward James
Olmos, Loretta Devine. (PG, 85 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. Who doesn’t
like a talking-dog movie - especially one
that provides work for most of Hollywood’s
Hispanic acting talent? - Marjorie Baumgarten
Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill
Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark
Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,
Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate

FIREPROOF D: Alex Kendrick; with Kirk

Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Jason McLeod,
Stephen Dervan, Eric Young, Harris Malcom, Dwan
Williams. (PG, 122 min.)

Let’s just come out and admit already
that Hollywood is a steaming cesspool of
deviance, hedonism, and casual amoral-
ity. Every year it pumps our minds full
of the most degrading kinds of filth and
sinful indulgence - men with guns, men
with knives, men with dirty mouths, men
with men - and passes it off as entertain-
ment, secure in the knowledge that the
lower it stoops, the more money it’ll make.
So what a surprise it must have been
this past Monday when, all over that god-
less town, industry insiders opened their
trade papers to discover that a low-budget
Christian film about the spiritual perils of
divorce and the power of prayer, produced
by a Baptist church in Georgia, written by
two associate pastors, starring a bunch of
nonactors (with the exception of former-
Tiger Beat-heartthrob-turned-televangelist
Cameron), and totally free of sex, violence,
or curse words, was the No. 4 movie at the
box office. Of course, the time was ripe for
such a triumph - it’s been years since Mel
Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ proved

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that the religious dollar is as green as
the secular one - but it took Fireproof to
prove that you don’t need good acting,
good writing, or good directing to make an
evangelical movie that catches Tinseltown
off guard. In fact, the writing and direct-
ing Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen
(who also made Facing the Giants), have
raised blandness and narrative predictabil-
ity to the level of high art. Their script for
Fireproof is almost sublime in its devotion
to artless, unambiguous sentimentality
and wide-eyed, tear-filled, gauzy, suburban
spiritual wonder. Their hero is Caleb Holt
(Cameron), a firefighter who has lost the
love connection with his wife. As soon as
he walks in the door after a long day of
pulling children from burning buildings, he
and Catherine (Bethea) are at each other’s
throats, over his selfishness, over her hen-
pecking, over his apparent fascination with
pornography (“apparent” only because
the script carefully avoids confronting the
topic head-on, choosing instead to use the
word “Internet” as a stand-in for all things
too-icky-to-mention). When Caleb turns
to his family for help, father (Malcom), a
newly born-again Christian, convinces son
to try the Love Dare, a 40-day experiment
in altered behavior designed to retighten
the bonds of marriage through selfless
devotion, faith in God, washed dishes,
and a deep appreciation of Bible quotes
that are short enough to fit on a refrigera-
tor magnet. Fireproof, in other words, is
American Evangelical Christian storytell-
ing at its finest, storytelling for a world
entirely devoid of gray areas or ethical
hierarchies, a world where hatred is tan-
tamount to murder and lust is equivalent
to adultery and all of the above equal
damnable sin: a world free of pesky moral
malleability - which makes for fruitful soul-
fishing but lousy drama. - Josh Rosenblatt
★ Barton Creek Square, CM Round Rock,
Gateway, Tinseltown North

FLASH OF GENIUS

D: Marc Abraham; with Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham,
Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda, Mitch Pileggi, Bill Smitrovich,
Aaron Abrams. (PG-13, 119 min.)

Flash of Genius, the directorial debut of
producer Abraham ( Children of Men, Spy
Game ) has all the ingredients of a great
American drama. Based on the true story
of engineer Robert Kearns - who, in 1963,

invented the intermittent windshield wiper,
only to see his idea stolen by the Ford
Motor Co. - it’s real David and Goliath
stuff, a battle between the forces of corpo-
rate greed and chicanery on one side and
an extremely stubborn individual human
spirit on the other. Like Tucker: The Man
and His Dream and Erin Brockovich before
it, Flash of Genius should have been one
of those movies that makes all of us feel
better about ourselves by fooling us into
believing that, under the same circum-
stances, we would have been the ones
standing up to those titans of industry. So
why, exactly, does it feel so bland? Could it
be its hero? For all his engineering prowess
and persistence, Kinnear’s Kearns is an
idealized and rather bloodless Hollywood
vision of the early-1960s Midwestern
American male: decent, hard-working, guile-
less, loyal, patriotic, and fertile. In other
words, despite an obsessiveness bordering
on (and occasionally toppling over into)
mania, Kearns just doesn’t have the kind of
larger-than-life personality we look for in our
cinematic little-guy heroes. He is, on the
contrary, quite dull, and 100 scenes of him
slaving away in his basement or a library
or in a courtroom don’t make him any less
so. Then again, maybe the problem with
the movie is the way it’s shot. Conspiracy
films, by definition, have to be built slowly
and meticulously, brick by brick, until a
sense of overwhelming, asphyxiating odds
becomes palpable. But for all his years in
Hollywood, Abraham is at a loss when it
comes to pacing, and where his film should
revel in the minutiae of a slowly unraveling
mystery and a slowly unraveling mind, he
instead leaps forward in time by months
and years every chance he gets, jarring
audiences as he goes, leaving them always
a few steps removed from his hero’s pain.
Or maybe, in the end analysis, the problem
is simply a matter of identification. Kearns,
who was so of his time and so not of ours
as to be almost a different species, walked
hands down/chin out into a classic con job
- what kind of fool hands over profitable
blueprints to potential competitors without
getting something in writing? - but he did
so in the early 1960s, a time when not
all Americans looked at big business with
cynicism and suspicion, when a man like
Kearns could still believe in Ford as a para-
gon of American corporate virtue. Maybe
he was a sucker, but it was his belief in the

An American Carol (PG-13)
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Battle in Seattle (R)

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG)
Blindness (R)

Flash of Genius (PG-13)

★★★★★ As perfect as a movie can be

★★★★ Slightly flawed, but excellent
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★★★ Has its good points, and its
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openings & ratings

How to Lose Friends & Alienate
People (R)

Kidnap (NR)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
(PG-13)

OSS 117: Cairo , Nest of Spies (NR)
Religulous (R)

★★ Mediocre, but with one or two
bright spots

★ Poor, without any saving graces

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tions that made his struggle for redemption
so winning, much more so than the movie
that was made to honor it.- Josh Rosenblatt
Barton Creek Square, CM Round Rock,
Gateway, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS &
ALIENATE PEOPLE D: Robert B.

Weide; with Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Danny
Huston, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges. (R, 110 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. Based on Toby
Young’s memoir about working at Vanity Fair,
this comedy stars Brit funny guy Pegg as
the writer and Bridges as a Graydon Carter-
esque editor. - Marjorie Baumgarten

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ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ 320 E. Sixth,
476-1320.

Terror Thursday: Anguish: Thu (10/9), 12mid

Cinema Cocktails: City Lights: Sun, 9:30pm; Tue, 10:10pm;

Wed, 10:30pm

Master Pancake: Forrest Gump: Fri-Sat, 7:00, 10:15
TV at the Alamo: Presidential Debate: Tue, 7:30pm
Religulous: Fri, 12:15,2:45,5:30,8:05, 10:35; Sat, 12:15, 1:30,
2:45, 4:15, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; Sun, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45, 4:15, 5:30,
7:00, 8:05, 10:35; Mon, 5:30, 7:00, 8:05, 10:35; Tue, 5:30, 8:05,
10:35; Wed, 5:30, 7:00, 8:05, 9:30; Thu (10/9), 7:00, 9:45
Music Monday: Rockers: Mon, 9:30pm
Weird Wednesday: The Shape of Things to Come: Wed, 12mid
Teen Witch Sing-Along:Thu (10/9), 9:30pm

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK

13729 Research, 219-8135.

Burn After Reading: Fri-Sun, 12:10,3:15, 7:20, 10:20; Mon, 12:10,
3:15, 10:20; Tue-Thu ( 10/9), 12:10,3:15,7:20, 10:20

* Eagle Eye: 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00
TV at the Alamo: Heroes: Mon, 8:00pm

* Nights in Rodanthe: 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 10:15

TV at the Alamo: Presidential Debate: Tue, 8:00pm
Righteous Kill: Fri, 12:15, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10; Sat, 12:15, 3:20,
10:10; Sun-Mon, 12:15,3:20, 7:10, 10:10;Tue, 12:15,3:20;
Wed, 12:15, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10; Thu (10/9), 12:15, 3:20, 7:10
Tropic Thunder: 12:25,3:25, 7:25, 10:05

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar,
476-1320.

*Appaioosa: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:40,4:30, 7:25, 10:15pm;

Mon, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; Tue, 1 1:00am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:25,
10:15pm; Wed-Thu (10/9), 4:30, 7:25, 10:15
Burn After Reading: Fri-Sun, 11:20am, 1:50,4:25, 7:30, 10:10pm;
Mon, 4:25, 7:30, 10:10; Tue, 1 1:20am, 1:50, 4:25, 7:30,
10:10pm; Wed-Thu (10/9), 4:25, 7:30, 10:10
Choke: Fri-Sun, 11:25am, 1:55,4:40, 7:10,9:35pm; Mon, 4:40,

7: 10; Tue, 11:25am, 1:55, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35pm; Wed-Thu
(10/9), 4:40, 7:10,9:35

Cinema Touching Disabilities Film Festival: Fri-Sat, 6:30pm
Eagle Eye: Fri-Sun, 12:30, 3:35, 7:05, 9:55; Mon, 3:35, 7:05, 9:55;

Tue, 12:30, 3:35, 9:55; Wed-Thu (10/9), 3:35, 7:05, 9:55
Humboldt County: Fri-Sun, 2:15, 10:25; Mon, 10:25pm;Tue, 2:15,
10:25; Wed-Thu (10/9), 10:25pm
AFS: Love in Thoughts: Tue, 7:00pm
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri-Sat, 11:05am, 1:20,4:00,
7:00,9:20, 11:30pm; Sun, 11:05am, 1:20,4:00, 7:00,9:20pm;
Mon, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20, 11:30; Tue, 11:05am, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00,
9:20, 11:30pm; Wed-Thu (10/9), 4:00, 7:00, 9:20, 11:30
TV at the Alamo: Presidential Debate: Tue, 8:00pm
Scion Route ’08: Quinceahera: Mon, 9:00pm
Tropic Thunder: Fri, 1 1:35am, 4:35pm; Sat, 11:35am, 4:50pm;
Sun, 11:35am, 4:50, 7:35pm; Mon, 4:50, 7:35; Tue, 11:35am,
4:50pm; Wed, 4:50, 7:35; Thu (10/9), 4:50pm

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W. Anderson,
476-1320. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day” shows (first show of
the day) are intended for parents and children aged infant to
6 years old.

Austin Asian American Film Festival: Thu (10/9), www.aaaff.org
Blindness: Fri-Sun, 12:30,3:45, 7:15, 10:20; Mon, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20;

Tue, 12:30,3:45, 7:15, 10:20; Wed-Thu (10/9), 3:45, 7:15, 10:20
Burn After Reading: Fri-Sun, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Mon, 4:00, 7:00,
9:45; Tue, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Wed-Thu (10/9), 4:00, 7:00, 9:45
Ghost Town: Fri, 3:55, 7:05, 9:55; Sat-Sun, 1:00, 3:55, 7:05, 9:55;
Mon, 3:55pm; Tue, 1:00, 3:55, 9:55; Wed, 3:55, 7:05, 9:55;

Thu (10/9), 3:55, 9:55
TV at the Alamo: Heroes: Mon, 9:30pm
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri-Sun, 1: 10, 4:10, 7:20,
10:10; Mon, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10;Tue, 1:10,4:10,7:20,10:10;
Wed-Thu (10/9), 4:10, 7:20, 10:10
TV at the Alamo: The Office: Thu (10/9), 7:30pm
TV at the Alamo: Presidential Debate: Tue, 7:45pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12mid

ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS

9828 Great Hills Trail (atJollyville), 231-9742. Discounts daily
before 6pm, all day Wednesdays.

Battle in Seattle: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05

Burn After Reading: 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10

Choke: 12:40, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:15

Mamma Mia!: 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:00

Religulous: 11:50am, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50pm

Tell No One: 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45

Towelhead: 12:30, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: 12:10, 2:25, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30

BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton Creek Square
mall, MoPac & Highway 360, 306-9190. Matinee discounts
available before 6pm on weekdays and before 4pm Friday
through Sunday and holidays.

Appaloosa: Fri-Sun, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00,8:00, 10:45pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:20, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30
Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 12:15,2:30,4:45, 7:45,
10:00pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:00
Blindness: Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:15,4:00, 7:30, 10:15
Bum After Reading: Fri-Sat, 11:20am, 1:35, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20,
10:35pm; Sun, 2:05, 4: 10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:35;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:35, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:35
Choke: Fri-Sun, 6:15, 8:35, 10:50; Mon-Thu (10/9), 7:25, 9:40
Eagle Eye: Fri-Sun, 9:55am, 12:30,3:10, 5:50,8:30, 11:10pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:40,4:20, 7:40, 10:20
Fireproof: Fri-Sun, 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25pm;

Mon-Wed, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25; Thu (10/9), 2:10, 4:55, 7:40
Flash of Genius: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:45,4:30, 7:15, 10:05
GhostTown: Fri-Sun, 10:15am, 12:40,3:05, 5:30, 11:00pm;

Mon-Wed, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20; Thu (10/9), 1:40, 4:05
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri-Sun, 10:10am, 12:45, 3:20,
5:55,8:30, 11:05pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00
Igor: Fri-Sun, 10:05am, 12:10,2:15,4:20pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:00,
3:05,5:20

Miracle at St. Anna: Fri, 11:55am, 3:35, 7:00, 10:20pm;

Sat, 1 1:55am, 3:35, 10:20pm; Sun, 1:00, 4:25, 7:50;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:05, 4:35, 8:00

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri-Sun, 11:15am, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00,
8:15, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:30, 3:45, 6:05, 8:15, 10:30
Nights in Rodanthe: Fri-Sat, 10:10am, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30,
9:50pm; Sun-Thu (10/9), 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50
Religulous: Fri-Sat, 10:20am, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35pm;
Sun, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:00, 3:15,
5:35,8:05, 10:35

CINEMARK CEDAR PARK 1335 E. Whitestone,
800/FANDANGO.

* An American Carol: Fri, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 12:30,

2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30

* Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Fri, 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20;
Sat-Sun, 10:40am, 1:00,3:20,5:45,8:00, 10:20pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20

*Blindness: Fri, 1:50,4:40, 7:50, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:50,
4:40, 7:50, 10:40pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:50,4:40, 7:50, 10:40
Burn After Reading: Fri, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:35; Sat-Sun, 12:15,
2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:35; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:35
*Eagie Eye: Fri, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:10,

5:00, 7:45, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30
*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15,
10:10; Sat-Sun, 10:50am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu
(10/9), 1:40,4:30,7:15,10:10
Igor: Fri, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00,
5:15, 7:30, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45
Lakeview Terrace: Fri, 2:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45; Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:00,
5:20,8:10, 10:45pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45
My Best Friend’s Girl: Fri, 5:10, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 11:45am, 5:10,
10:05pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 5:10, 10:05
*Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20;
Sat-Sun, 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:20,
4:45, 7:00,9:20

*Nights in Rodanthe: Fri, 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Sun, 11:10am,
1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10
Righteous Kill: 2:30,7:40
The Women: 1:15, 4:00, 7:20, 10:00

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12812 Hill Country Blvd., 800/FANDANGO.

* An American Carol: Fri, 2:45, 5:15, 7:25, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 12:00,

2:45, 5:15, 7:25, 10:05; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:45, 5:15, 7:25, 10:05
*Appaioosa: Fri, 3:35, 6:55, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 12:40, 3:35, 6:55,
10:00; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:35, 6:55, 10:00

* Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Fri, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55;

Sat-Sun, 11:45am, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55

*Blindness: Fri, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:30, 6:45, 9:40
Burn After Reading: Fri, 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 11:50am,
2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45
The Dark Knight: 8:00pm

*Eagle Eye: Fri, 1:50, 3:15, 4:40, 6:05, 7:30, 8:50, 10:15;

Sat-Sun, 12:25, 1:50, 3:15, 4:40, 6:05, 7:30, 8:50, 10:15;
Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:50, 3:15, 4:40, 6:05, 7:30, 8:50, 10:15
*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45,
10:20; Sat-Sun, 11:35am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20
Igor: Fri, 2:40, 5:25; Sat-Sun, 12:15, 2:40, 5:25;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:40, 5:25
My Best Friend’s Girl: Fri, 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10;

Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10
*Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri, 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25;
Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 1:55,4:20, 7:00,9:25pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25
*Nights in Rodanthe: Fri, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25;

Sat-Sun, 11:55am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25
Righteous Kill: Fri, 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:45,
7:15, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu ( 10/9), 2:00, 4:45, 7: 15, 9:50
The Women: Fri, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; Sat-Sun, 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15;
Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:40, 6:30, 9:15

CINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK 2120 N. Mays
(Round Rock), 512/388-2848. Discounts daily before 5pm.
*Death Race: Fri, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 11:50am, 2:20,
5:00, 7:40, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15
Get Smart: Fri, 4:20, 7:00; Sat-Sun, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:20, 7:00

Hancock: Fri, 2:10, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 2:10, 4:50,
7:05, 9:30pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:10, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30
Kung Fu Panda: Fri, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 11:00am,
1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:20, 5:30,
7:50, 10:10

*Mamma Mial: Fri, 1:45,9:40; Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 9:40pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:45,9:40

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: Fri, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30,
10:05; Sat-Sun, 11:25am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05
Space Chimps: Fri, 3:15,5:20, 7:25,9:50; Sat-Sun, 11:15am, 1:20,
3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:50
*Step Brothers: Fri, 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 12:00, 2:30,
5:10,8:00, 10:20; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:20
* Swing Vote: Fri, 1:40,4:30, 7:15, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 10:55am, 1:40,
4:30, 7:15, 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00

CINEMARK ROUND ROCK 4401 N. 1-35, 800/FANDANGO.

* An American Carol: Fri, 2:10, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20; Sat-Sun, 11:40am,

2:10, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:10, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20
*Appaioosa: Fri, 1:10, 4:15, 7:35, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 10:25am, 1:10,
4:15, 7:35, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:10, 4:15, 7:35, 10:20

* Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Fri, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15;

Sat-Sun, 9:50am, 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15

*Blindness: Fri, 1:50, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 10:50am, 1:50,
5:00, 7:55, 10:40pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:50, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40
Burn After Reading: 6:50, 9:10
*Eagle Eye: Fri, 2:00, 3:25, 4:50, 6:15, 7:40, 9:05, 10:30;

Sat-Sun, 9:45am, 1 1: 10, 12:35, 2:00, 3:25, 4:50, 6:15, 7:40,
9:05, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:00, 3:25, 4:50, 6:15, 7:40,
9:05, 10:30

*Fireproof: Fri, 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Sat, 10:10am, 1:00, 4:10,
10:00pm; Sun, 10:10am, 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00
*Flash of Genius: Fri, 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 1:30,
4:30, 7:20, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05
*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri, 2:20, 5:05, 8:00,
10:35; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:20, 5:05, 8:00, 10:35pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:20, 5:05, 8:00, 10:35
Igor: Fri, 2:30, 4:40; Sat-Sun, 10:00am, 12:10, 2:30, 4:40pm;
Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:30, 4:40

Lakeview Terrace: Fri, 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 10:40am,
1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40
*Miracle at St. Anna: Fri, 2:50, 6:30,9:55; Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:50,
6:30, 9:55pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:50, 6:30, 9:55
*Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri, 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:30;
Sat-Sun, 10:20am, 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:30pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:30
*Nights in Rodanthe: Fri, 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 11:00am,
1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50

CINEMARK SOUTHPARK MEADOWS 9900 S. 1-35,
800/FANDANGO.

* An American Carol: 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:00

* Beverly Hills Chihuahua: 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05
*Blindness: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50

Burn After Reading: 1:55,4:20, 7:50, 10:15

The Dark Knight: 1:25, 5:00, 8:30

*Eagle Eye: 12:45, 2:05, 3:30, 4:55, 6:25, 7:40, 9:10, 10:25

*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10

Igor: 1:15,3:35

Lakeview Terrace: 1:50,4:40, 7:25, 10:30

*Miracle at St. Anna: 12:50, 4:15, 8:00

My Best Friend’s Girl: 7:00, 9:45

*Nick& Norah’s Infinite Playlist: 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 9:55

*Nights in Rodanthe: 1:20, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40

The Women: 1:00,4:00,7:15, 10:20

DOBIE THEATRE 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall, second floor),
472-FILM.

Appaloosa: Fri, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30;
Mon-Thu (10/9), 7:00, 9:30

Burn After Reading: Fri, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20,
9:50; Mon-Thu (10/9), 7:20, 9:50
Call + Response: Thu (10/9), 7:00, 9:00
Man on Wire: Fri, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30,
10:00; Mon-Wed, 7:30, 10:00

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies: Fri, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 1:10,
4: 10, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Wed, 7:10, 9:40; Thu (10/9), 7:30, 10:00

GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North 1-35 & Middle Fiskville,
467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatre on
Friday and Saturday after 7pm without an adult.

An American Carol: Fri, 1:15,3:15,5:15,7:15,9:15, 11:50;

Sat, 11:15am, 1:15,3:15,5:15, 7:15,9:15, 11:50pm;

Sun, 11:15am, 1:15,3:15,5:15,7:15,9:15pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:15,3:15,5:15,7:15,9:15
Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Fri, 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 7: 10, 9:20,

11:30; Sat, 10:25am, 12:30,2:35,4:40, 7:10,9:20, 11:30pm;
Sun, 10:25am, 12:30,2:35,4:40, 7:10,9:20pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20
Blindness: Fri, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35, 12mid; Sat, 10:30am,

1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35, 12mid; Sun, 10:30am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00,
9:35pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35
Burn After Reading: Fri, 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10, 11:40;

Sat, 10:20am, 12:30,2:40, 4:50,7:00,9:10, 11:40pm;

Sun, 10:20am, 12:30,2:40,4:50, 7:00,9:10pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10
Eagle Eye: Fri, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00, 11:55;

Sat, 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30,9:40, 10:00, 11:55pm;

Sun, 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30, 9:40, 10pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri, 12:15, 2:30, 4:55,

7:20, 9:45, 12mid; Sat, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45,
12mid; Sun, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45
Igor: Fri, 1:00,3:10,5:20, 7:30,9:40, 11:45; Sat, 11:00am, 1:00,
3:10,5:20, 7:30,9:40, 11:45pm; Sun, 11:00am, 1:00,3:10,5:20,
7:30, 9:40pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri, 12:15, 2:35, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15,
11:45; Sat, 10:00am, 12:15,2:35,4:45, 7:00,9:15, 11:45pm;
Sun, 10:00am, 12:15,2:35,4:45, 7:00,9:15pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:15, 2:35, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15
Nights in Rodanthe: Fri, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25, 11:45;

Sat, 10:00am, 12:15,2:30, 4:45,7:10,9:25, 11:45pm;

Sun, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys: Fri-Sat, 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40,
12mid; Sun-Thu (10/9), 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40

GATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake, between Capital
of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in the Gateway shopping
center, 416-5700x3808.

An American Carol: 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35
Appaloosa: 11:35am, 2:10, 4:50,7:40, 10:15pm
Beverly Hills Chihuahua: 11:55am, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50pm
Blindness: 12:50, 4:10, 7:55, 10:35
*Eagle Eye: 11:45am, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40pm
*Eagle Eye (in DLP digital): 12:15, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00
Fireproof: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:45; Sun, 12:30, 9:45;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:45
Flash of Genius: 1:00, 3:40, 7:05, 9:55
GhostTown: 11:50am, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05pm
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: 11:40am, 2:00, 5:10,
7:50, 10:30pm

Igor: 12:05, 2:35, 4:40, 6:45, 9:10

Lakeview Terrace: Fri, 3:15, 7:10, 10:25; Sat, 12:25, 10:25;

Sun, 3:15, 7:10; Mon, 3:15, 10:25;Tue-Thu (10/9), 12:25,3:15,
7:10,10:25

Lakeview Terrace (open captioned): Fri, 12:25pm; Sat, 3:15pm;

Sun, 12:25, 10:25; Mon, 12:25, 7:10
Miracle at St. Anna: 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40
Nights in Rodanthe: Fri-Mon, 11:30am, 1:50, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20pm;
Tue, 1 1:30am, 4:55, 7:45pm; Wed, 1:50, 4:55, 10:20;

Thu (10/9), 11:30am, 4:55, 7:45pm
Nights in Rodanthe (open captioned): Tue, 1:50, 10:20;

Wed, 11:30am, 7:45pm; Thu (10/9), 1:50, 10:20
The Women: 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30

IMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum
(1800 N. Congress), 936-IMAX.

Grand Canyon Adventure 3D: River at Risk: 1:00, 4:00, 6:00

Haunted Castle 3D: Sat-Thu (10/9), 7:00pm

Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric Adventure: Fri, 12:00, 12:00, 7:00;

Sat, 12:00pm; Mon-Thu (10/9), 12:00pm
Texas: The Big Picture: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 2:00pm; Sun, 2:00pm;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 10:00am, 2:00pm
U2 3D: Fri-Sat, 9:00pm

Wild Ocean 3D: Fri-Sat, 1 1:00am, 3:00, 5:00, 8:00pm; Sun, 3:00,
5:00, 8:00; Mon-Thu (10/9), 11:00am, 3:00, 5:00, 8:00pm

LAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway 183
and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before 6pm; all day
Wednesday.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05

Blindness: 12:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

Burn After Reading: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15

*Eagle Eye: 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55

The House Bunny: 12:30, 3:00, 7:25, 10:10

Igor: 12:20,2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20

Lakeview Terrace: 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30

Miracle at St. Anna: 11:50am, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45pm

Nights in Rodanthe: 11:55am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40pm

METROPOLITAN South 1-35 atStassney, 447-0101.

An American Carol: 12:30, 3:00, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00
Beverly Hills Chihuahua: 11:40am, 12:10, 2:10, 2:40, 4:40, 5:20,
7:20,8:00,9:50, 10:35pm
Blindness: 12:40,4:10, 7:10, 10:15

Burn After Reading: Fri, 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40; Sat, 12:20,
2:50, 10:40; Sun-Thu (10/9), 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40
*Eagle Eye: 12:00, 2:00, 3:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:45
Forever Strong: 12:50, 7:25
The House Bunny: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30
Igor: 11:50am, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30pm
Lakeview Terrace: 12:20,4:15, 7:30, 10:30
Miracle at St. Anna: 11:45am, 3:10, 6:40, 10:05pm
Nights in Rodanthe: 11:55am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20pm
Tropic Thunder: 4:30, 10:25

Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys: 12:45, 4:20, 7:25, 10:10

MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER

600 River St., 478-6222.

Cine Las Americas: 1910, the Spiritist Revolution: Tue, 8:00pm
Cine Las Americas: Prisoner 13: Wed, 8:00pm

MILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932.
Located within the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex.
Adults, $6; children, $4.

*Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 1:30, 4:30,
8:30pm; Wed-Thu (10/9), 10:30am, 1:30, 4:30pm

TINSELTOWN NORTH North 1-35 and FM 1825
(Pflugerville), 512/989-8540.

* An American Carol: 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55

* Appaloosa: 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15

*Beveriy Hills Chihuahua: 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20

*Beverly Hills Chihuahua (in DLP digital): 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30

*Blindness: 1:50,4:40, 7:30, 10:20

Burn After Reading: Fri, 7:50, 10:15; Sat, 10:15pm;

Sun-Thu (10/9), 7:50, 10:15
The Dark Knight: 6:20,9:40

* Eagle Eye: 12:10, 1:30,2:55,4:15,5:40,7:00,8:25,9:45
*Fireproof: 1:40,4:30, 7:20, 10:10

*Flash of Genius: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00
GhostTown: 12:15,2:45,5:15,7:40, 10:15

*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40,
7:15,9:50pm

Igor: 11:40am, 1:55,4:10pm
Lakeview Terrace: 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40
*Miracle at St. Anna: 12:25, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40
*Nick& Norah’s Infinite Playlist: 12:15, 1:25, 2:30, 3:40, 4:45,
5:55,7:00,8:10,9:15,10:25

* Nights in Rodanthe: 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55
Righteous Kill: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys: 11:45am, 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45pm
The Women: 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00pm

TINSELTOWN SOUTH South 1-35 atStassney, 326-3800.

$10 “special event” ticket prices apply to Indian films.

* Appaloosa: Fri, 4:35, 7:40, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 1:30, 4:35, 7:40,

10:30; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:35, 7:40, 10:30
Babylon A.D.: Fri, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Sun, 1:25, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:20, 6:50, 9:20
The Dark Knight: 3: 10, 6:25, 9:45

Death Race: Fri, 4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:00, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 2:00,

4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:00, 10:05; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:45, 6:15, 7:40,
9:00, 10:05

* Flash of Genius: Fri, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 1:05, 4:00, 7:00,

10:00; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
Ghost Town: Fri, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55; Sat-Sun, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:20, 7:05, 9:55
Hancock: 8:20pm

Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 1:20,
4:10, 7:15, 10:10; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:10, 7:15, 10:10
*How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Fri, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20;
Sat-Sun, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:40,

7:30, 10:20

*Kidnap: Fri-Sat, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45; Sun, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:30, 8:30

*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: Fri, 4:35, 7:45,

10:15; Sat-Sun, 1:15, 4:35, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:35,
7:45, 10:15

My Best Friend’s Girl: Fri, 4:15, 7:05,9:40; Sat-Sun, 1:30,4:15,
7:05, 9:40; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:15, 7:05, 9:40
*Nick& Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Fri, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30;
Sat-Sun, 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:20,
5:40, 8:00,10:30

Pineapple Express: Fri, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 1:40, 4:15, 7:10,
9:50; Mon-Thu (10/9), 4:15, 7:10, 9:50
Righteous Kill: Fri, 3:15, 4:25, 5:45, 6:55, 8:15, 9:30, 10:35;
Sat-Sun, 1:30, 3:15, 4:25, 5:45, 6:55, 8:15, 9:30, 10:35;

Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:15, 4:25, 5:45, 6:55, 8:15, 9:30, 10:35
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: 3:15, 5:45

WALL-E: Fri, 3:35pm; Sat-Sun, 1:10, 3:35; Mon-Thu (10/9), 3:35pm

WESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White, 899-271 7.
Discounts daily before 6pm.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua: 1 1:40am, 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20pm
Blindness: 12:40,4:00, 7:30, 10:25
Burn After Reading: 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05
* Eagle Eye: 11:30am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15pm
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: 11:55am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45,
10:20pm

Igor: 11:35am, 1:50,4:10,6:45,9:00pm

Lakeview Terrace: 12:10,2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30

Miracle at St. Anna: 11:45am, 3:05, 6:25, 9:45pm

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: 12:20, 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40

Nights in Rodanthe: 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25

Righteous Kill: 4:15, 10:00

The Women: 12:45, 7:20

FOR UPDATED SHOWTIMES, SEE

austinchronicle.com/film.

> Changes may sometimes occur; viewers are encouraged to call theatres to confirm showtimes.

> An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes or special admission discounts will be accepted.

KIDNAP D: Sanjay Gadhvi; with

Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha
Lamba, Vidya Malvade, Malaika Arora.

(NR, 144 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. This
new Bollywood film is an action
thriller. - Marjorie Baumgarten
Tinseltown South

NICK & NORAH’S
INFINITE PLAYLIST

D: Peter Sollett; with Michael Cera, Kat
Dennings, Ari Graynor, Alexis Dziena,

Aaron Yoo, Rafi Gavron, Zachary Booth, Jay
Baruchel. (PG-13, 90 min.)

Nick and Norah’s Infinite
Playlist, based on Rachel Cohn
and David Levithan’s infinitely
readable he said/she said
young-adult novel, wants to be
loved at least as much as the
soulful and ingrown indie hip-
sters of its title. But all I can
seem to muster, post-screening,
is a modicum of fondness and
a probably impermanent relief
that the film isn’t anywhere
near as awful as it might have
been in less capable hands.
Director Sollett, who helmed
the fine Raising Victor Vargas
back in 2002, keeps things real
almost to the point of emotional
withdrawal, which was surely
his intent: emo kids are, if any-
thing, emotionally constipated,
which makes for terrifically
engaging bands but precious
little dialogue. Nick (Cera) and
Norah (Dennings) are a pair of
bridge-and-tunnel teens (they
both hail from Englewood, N.J.)
who meet cute while out on the
town searching the East Village
and Brooklyn for a supersecret
show by too-cool-for-school band
Where’s Fluffy? (a faux band
moniker that rivals Reality Bites’
Hey, That’s My Bike for sheer
cultural inscrutability). Nick,
mourning the fact that he’s been
dumped by sexy, shallow ex Tris
(Dziena) by burning endless
mix CDs for his departed, is
dragged out of his self-pity party
and thrust into the gorgeous
neon of the New York night by
his gay bandmates, who vow
to hook him up with someone
new by the end of the night.
Enter Norah, a velvet-roper born
of music-business royalty who
convolutedly ends up sharing
Nick’s bedraggled Yugo as the
new pair-to-be search for Fluffy
and Norah’s wasted best friend,
Caroline (Graynor). Comparing
iPods, Norah recognizes a kin-
dred spirit in the woeful Nick
and immediately the big ques-
tion isn’t Will they? but When
will they? (and where the hell
is Fluffy?). Cera builds slightly

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on his Superbad template of sensitive
geek, and Dennings is darkly luminous
as the already jaded Norah, and the
film certainly captures the magic of that
perfect night out during which anything
can happen and, of course, does. But
the spark at the heart of Cohn and
Levithan’s novel seems damponed here,
and between Nick’s endless dithering
over his scheming ex and Norah’s super-
cool pout, the film never quite reaches
the heartfelt heartache heights of, say,
the many, many indie darlings (Vampire
Weekend, Devendra Banhart, We Are
Scientists) that litter the soundtrack like
so many skinny jeans at a Spoon show.
There’s love in the air, sure, but it’s so
slight and ephemeral it might as well
be the Strokes’ career, and, as far as
NYC nights go, it’s got nothing on either
John Hughes’ teen-angstgasms or, espe-
cially, Martin Scorsese’s far juicier, often
overlooked, midnight masterpiece After
Hours. It’s like looking through a dreamy,
indiemope kaleidoscope at a party you’re
not invited to, and, frankly, not even sure
you’d want to attend. - Marc Savlov
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OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST

OF SPIES D: Michel Hazanavicius; with
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe
Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Said Amadis, Laurent
Bateau, Claude Brosset. (NR, 99 min., subtitled)

As Hollywood increasingly relies on
ever less entertaining parodies of whole
cinematic genres to sate an apparently
insatiable public appetite for seriously
dumb humor, the comparatively sophis-
ticated yuks of Airplane! and The Naked
Gun have devolved into the lowest-
common-denominator yucks of the
Scary Movie franchise and the viciously
unfunny gurgles of Not Another Teen
Movie, et al. Truly great parody relies in
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the object of comic ridicule and not on
how many fart jokes you can jam into an
already bloated 90-minute running time.
Austin Powers, for example, succeeded
as much on the merits of its hyper-
detailed production and art design as it
did on Mike Myers’ groovy, hirsute mug-
ging. Its swinging, Bond-esque London
looked, or at least felt, as real as its
modern-day counterpart, and its subject
of parody, the 007 films, was universally
known. Leave it to the French to beat us
at our own bizarrely self-reflexive comic
shenanigans. OSS 117: Cairo , Nest of
Spies is a model of smart, often very
silly, but never, ever stupid comic perfec-
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bristling with anti-English antipathy over
a looming Suez canal crisis and radi-
cal Islam was just getting warmed up,
the French Office of Strategic Services
sends its best man, Hubert Bonisseur
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ished agent Jack Jefferson (Lefebvre). OSS
117 is, of course, a fatuous, self-involved,
debonair jerk who attracts the leggiest
ladies and trouble of every sort. But Cairo ,
Nest of Spies, is far more than a Clouseau-
on-holiday knockoff. Simple, period touches
like the frequent use of obvious rear-projec-
tion (a nod to Hitchcock and a wonderfully
evocative gag in and of itself), an ongoing
bit about OSS 117’s nicotine independency,
and an unexpectedly hilarious undercur-
rent of homoeroticism among spies of all
nations conspire to make this a consistently
entertaining parody that never once makes
you feel like an idiot for laughing out loud at
its idiocy. - Marc Savlov

Dobie

RELIGULOUS D: Larry Charles.

(R, 101 min.)

Hallelujah. Bill Maher walks with the
angels in his documentary Religulous
(rhymes with ridiculous). Though fashioned
as popular entertainment with laughs, light
moments, and mostly humorous segments,
Religulous is as serious as a disapprov-
ing Jehovah about its mission to upend
our rote allegiance to blind religious faith.
Maher hosts this globe-hopping whirlwind of
interviews with various representatives of
the Western religious faiths of Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism (Eastern
and African religions are paid no mind here,
which is one of the film’s stumbling points).
He goes to the Vatican and the Holy Land,
the Mormon Tabernacle and a truckers’
church in the Bible Belt, a congressional
office and the church he attended as a

child. As always, Maher carries with him his
sharp wit as he engages his interviewees
on the subject of faith without proof. He
is in every scene as the interviewer, but
rather than using Michael Moore gotcha
tactics, he participates in what seem to
be real conversations with his subjects.

He poses provocative questions to which

the respondents’ answers often form the
unintended punch lines. More restrained
here than he is on his TV show Real Time
With Bill Maher, Maher frequently responds
to an interviewee with controlled silence.
The best example of this is his conversa-
tion with Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas dur-
ing which the creationist senator defends

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Slacker Uprising (2008) D: Michael
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extra features. It first screened at the 2007
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his beliefs against Maher’s ridicule of
this legislator who believes in Bible “fairy
tales,” and Pryor concludes by saying, “you
don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the
Senate.” Instead of responding to the gift
of a fabulous straight line, Maher remains
silent while the camera lingers on Pryor’s
face. The scene is also a testament to the
contributions of director Charles ( Borat ,
Curb Your Enthusiasm), who needs no
more than this film’s simple two-camera
setup to demonstrate an unfailing sense
of what needs to be in the frame at any
time. Maher and Charles can be faulted
for playing it somewhat safe in Religulous,
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thinkers or experienced theologians and
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on those who might be considered easy
marks. Neither do they delve too deeply

into the more indecipherable sense of
spirituality that seems to infuse the major-
ity of people even if they don’t consider
themselves members of an organized
religion or faith. A closing monologue by
Maher about the dangers of mixing religion
and politics also uncomfortably shifts the
film’s tone from barbed humor to zeal-
ous rant. Until that point, however, Maher
dances on the head of a pin, pirouetting
onscreen as he preaches the gospel of
doubt. If, as Maher states, 16% of the U.S.
population identifies as secular human-
ists who don’t believe in God, then that’s
a large cross section of the country whose
voices are muffled by the status quo. It is
to them, more than the believers, Maher
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BURN AFTER READING D: Joel Coen,

Ethan Coen; with George Clooney, Frances McDormand,
Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins,
David Rasche, J.K. Simmons. (R, 95 min.)

Burn After Reading is a convoluted yet light-as-air
farce about the dangers of misguided ambition and
the contagiousness of paranoia. When a newly fired
CIA analyst (Malkovich) decides to write a memoir
about his time with the agency, he ends up instead
on the wrong end of a blackmail scheme orches-
trated by a bumbling duo, Linda Litzke (McDormand)
and Chad Feldheimer (Pitt), two likable middle-aged
losers who think they’ve stumbled upon classified
government documents. They’re a classic ditzy
comedy pair, and their pathological dopiness allows
the Coens to mock the conventions of spy movies.
But they’re also the movie’s Achilles’ heel: heroes
whose bulging-eyed broadness descends quickly into
burlesque. Say what you will about the cinematic
joys of extortion, infidelity, espionage, paranoia, and

random acts of graphic violence; if they’re performed
by cartoons and not people, it’s going to be hard
to get the people sitting in the theatre to care. The
Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but
there are times when there’s no point in taking them
seriously. (09/12/2008) - Josh Rosenblatt

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CHOKE D: Clark Gregg; with Sam Rockwell, Anjelica
Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Clark
Gregg, Paz de la Huerta. (R, 89 min.)

Choke is a forgettable adaptation of Chuck
Palahniuk’s 2001 novel. Veteran character actor
and first-time writer/director Gregg directs, while
Rockwell plays Victor Mancini, a man of many hats,
all of them off-putting. He’s a sex addict who goes
to a recovery group mostly to score fresh meat;
a medical-school dropout who pays the bills as a
colonial America re-enactor, with a sideline scam as
a choking victim in restaurants; and an unloved, oft-
abandoned son who’s trying to lay the cute doctor
(Macdonald) attending his Alzheimer’s-addled mother
(Huston). Mancini’s character boils down to a lot of

self-loathing and unresolved mommy issues - which
is as tedious as it sounds - and the film, shot by
Tim Orr with the wanness of a porno flick, is only half
as blackly comic as it should be. Bright spots include
the bearlike Henke as Victor’s best friend, a chronic
masturbator with a sunny disposition, and the terrific
Macdonald. (09/26/2008) - Kimberley Jones

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E AG L E E Y E D: D.J. Caruso; with Shia LaBeouf,
Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis,
Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony
Azizi. (PG-13, 118 min.)

I could be wrong, but it feels like Eagle Eye is arriv-
ing a few months late. With its frenetic car chases;
its near-erotic fascination with explosions, gadgets,
and guns; and its improbable and, in the end, totally
disposable storyline, it’s the very definition of a sum-
mer blockbuster: good, manic fun plus a heavy dose
of political intrigue adding up to two hours of clamor-
ous, mind-numbing nonsense. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf)
is a sweet-talking slacker with a chip on his shoulder
who gets dragged into a violent conspiracy against
the U.S. government. He is on the run from the FBI
(led by a deliciously dyspeptic Thornton) after being
framed as a terrorist for reasons he can’t understand
and narrowly escaping the gaping maw of the post-
PATRIOT Act American justice system. Like Enemy of
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with surveillance and, like The Terminator trilogy, one
where the machines have slipped their leashes and
taken over. (09/26/2008) - Josh Rosenblatt

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FOREVER STRONG D: Ryan Little; with
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(PG-13, 112 min.)

Not reviewed at press time. The film tells the story
of a volunteer American rugby coach who inspires his
team. (09/26/2008) - Marjorie Baumgarten

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GHOST TOWN D: David Koepp; with Ricky
Gervais, Tea Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen
Wiig, Dana Ivey. (PG-13, 102 min.)

Bertram Pincus (Gervais) is a misanthrope when
something extraordinary happens to him: While
under general anesthesia, he dies on the surgical
table. Upon resuscitation, Pincus discovers he can
see dead people. But shaking hands with the reaper
doesn’t make him any nicer; he gets even worse,
actually, and is cruelly contemptuous of all the stuck-
in-limbo souls who beg him to tidy up for them their
loose ends. Still, newly dead Frank Herlihy (Kinnear)
convinces Pincus to take up his cause, which is to
steer Frank’s widow, Gwen (Leoni), away from a bad
love match. Sounds a little bit cookie-cutter, but if
you were going for cookie-cutter, you wouldn’t have
hired Gervais. Ghost Town is a slow-burn kind of
picture that doesn’t bend over backward to ingratiate
itself. By the time this imperfect little film wends its
way to one of the most winning exit lines I’ve heard
in a long time, it’s turned into something, well, per-
fectly lovely. (09/19/2008) - Kimberley Jones

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Kyoko Baertsoen; with the voices of Jasper Steverlinck ,
Harry Shearer. (PG, 38 min.) A young musician inherits a
haunted castle from his rock diva mother in this 3-D film
that puts the viewer in the middle of the maelstrom. It’s
from the director of Fly Me to the Moon and is the first
I MAX film to be rated PG (in 2001), so guardians of young
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THE HOUSE BUNNY D: Fred wolf; with
Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Rumer Willis,
Katharine McPhee, Sarah Wright, Dana Goodman, Kat
Dennings, Christopher McDonald, Beverly D’Angelo.

(PG-13, 97 min.)

This empty-headed comedy about a Playmate who
finds herself a house mother to a group of misfit
sorority sisters is little more than a recycled version of
Legally Blonde with bunny ears. (Not surprisingly, both
films were penned by screenwriters Karen McCullah
Lutz and Kirsten Smith.) After being evicted from the
mansion, sweet but dimwitted Shelley Darlingson
(Faris) ends up at the run-down Zeta Alpha Zeta house,
which quickly becomes the most popular spot on cam-
pus once she nurtures her girls by teaching them to
wear too much make-up and too little clothing. While
the female empowerment theme is a bit muddled,
the film lacks the confident presence of someone like
Reese Witherspoon to gloss over the mixed signals it
gives about femininity and individualism. Faris’ perfor-
mance grows on you, but the character is never given
the opportunity to command the silliness onscreen in
the way that Elle Woods gave Witherspoon the oppor-
tunity to shine. (08/29/2008) - Steve Davis

★★ Lakeline, Metropolitan

HUMBOLDT COUNTY D: Darren
Grodsky, Danny Jacobs; with Jeremy Strong, Fairuza
Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Chris Messina,
Brad Dourif, Madison Davenport. (R, 97 min.)

In a perfect world, childhood friends and Humboldt
County co-directors/writers Grodsky and Jacobs
would be at the forefront of a cinematic revolution
that would blast wide the doors of onscreen unself-
consciousness and herald the return of some seri-
ously deep, green, sticky-sweet American introspective
filmmaking. Strong plays an emotionally gut-shot
med-school washout who is cast adrift, aloft, and ulti-
mately alive by an extended, cannabis-farming family
(led by Dourif and Conroy). His screen debut is one of
the most genuinely affecting twentysomething touch-
stones since Benjamin Braddock went off the deep
end. High praise indeed, but he’s buoyed by a terrific
ensemble cast (Bogdanovich surprises; Balk, as ever,
entices), and his slow-burn turn makes a devastat-
ing case for the path least expected. His Hippocratic
character, shorn of scalpel and in desperate need of
a lifeline, recalls Bud Cort’s moribund Harold in Harold
and Maude. They’re both maudlin, dire, and borderline
necktie parties, and they both represent their respec-
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Film Fight pays tribute to the unsung hero
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Look, you confused? You need guidance?

Talk to another writer.

Barton Fink

Who?

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And do me a favor, Fink: Throw it hard.

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I G 0 R D: Anthony Leondis; with the voices of John
Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Izzard, John Cleese, Sean
Hayes, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Coolidge. (PG, 87 min.)

Like most acts of cruel mediocrity committed in
the name of entertaining children, Igor presumably
seemed like a good idea at the time. (Children on
their own are rarely if ever mediocre in their cru-
elty, a subtle but key distinction that has not gone
unnoticed by Tim Burton.) Based extremely loosely
on the now-generic title character, this PG-rated (for
“thematic elements, scary images, action, and mild
language”) comedy is nowhere near as visually,
vocally, or narratively inspired - or likely to inspire
- as Burton and Henry Selick’s similarly themed
animated outings. Igor (voiced, ingratiatingly, by
Cusack) is an ambitious dreamer in the Disneyfied,
follow-your-dreams-you-crazy-misfit-you mold, who
seeks only to (nobly and rightly) prove his worth as
a creator rather than a mere assistant. Buscemi ’s
turn as Igor’s suicidal bunny buddy is a canny lesson
in futility, and Cleese is criminally underused. Pixar
this isn’t, but neither is it Mary Shelley’s VeggieTales.
(09/26/2008) - Marc Savlov

Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country
Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,
Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown
North, Westgate

LAKEVIEW TERRACED: Neil LaBute; with
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington,
Ron Glass, Justin Chambers, Jay Hernandez, Regine Nehy,
Jaishon Fisher. (PG-13, 110 min.)

Jackson playing a violent cop in a LaBute film
should be a no-brainer: two hours of delicious
psychosexual terror and verbal brutality posing as
a movie. Unfortunately, LaBute the brilliant writer
doesn’t make an appearance in Lakeview Terrace,
only LaBute the average director. The writing was
left to David Loughery and Howard Korder; the result

is a by-the-book domestic thriller about the conse-
quences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over
by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.
From the moment Chris and Lisa Mattson (Wilson
and Washington) arrive at their new upper-middle-
class Los Angeles neighborhood, it’s clear the guy
next door, Abel Turner (Jackson), hates them with
a passion bordering on mania. He antagonizes the
Mattsons with veiled threats and subtle acts of intimi-
dation before turning to all-out psychological warfare,
eventually forcing the formerly agreeable Chris to fight
back. Jackson was born to play characters like Turner,
but aside from that, Lakeview Terrace is boilerplate
through and through. (09/19/2008) - Josh Rosenblatt
★★ CM Cedar Park, CM Round Rock, Southpark
Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown
North, Westgate

MAN ON WIRE D: James Marsh.

(PG-13, 90 min.)

This documentary tells an impossible story about
a man who walked - danced, really - on a tightrope
strung between the tops of the two then-new World
Trade Center buildings. Philippe Petit’s inspired and
altogether unauthorized bit of daredeviltry is the sub-
ject of Marsh’s equally exhilarating film. The notion
of “le coup,” as Petit and his cadre of assistants
and friends referred to the WTC walk, was born even

before the towers were fully erected, and Petit’s
impossibly complex and detailed planning went on
for years before finally becoming a reality that, seen
here, resembles some sort of Godard-meets-Buhuel
bank caper. While the authorities, the press, and the
citizenry of the Big Apple were all asking why, Petit
(insightfully highlighting the difference between the
French and American mindsets) could only say, by
way of explanation: “There is no why. There is only
the walk.” ( 08/08/2008 ) - Marc Savlov

★★★★ Dobie

MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA D: spike

Lee; with Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonzo, Omar
Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Matteo
Sciabordi, John Turturro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (R, 160 min.)

Sadly, Lee’s new movie is a major disappointment,
especially as it comes on the heels of the film-
maker’s greatest commercial success, Inside Man.
Miracle at St. Anna is a bloated, muddled, indistinct,
and ill-paced movie (adapted by James McBride from
his novel) that makes its 160 minutes seem like a
tour of duty for the viewer. It’s a war movie and a
murder mystery, a history lesson and a sentimental
melodrama all jumbled together episodically and
glancingly. The bulk of the movie is one long flash-
back about four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s
92nd Infantry Division who get trapped in Tuscany

behind enemy lines in 1944. The soldiers never
develop beyond their signature traits into memorable
human beings. A completely superfluous murder
mystery bookends the flashback. Lee adds some
touches of magic realism to his repertoire, while
Terence Blanchard’s music score overwhelms the
visuals and leaves little to the imagination. And the
film comes packaged with its own set of stereotypes.
(09/26/2008) - Marjorie Baumgarten

★ Barton Creek Square, CM Round Rock, Southpark
Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown
North, Westgate

MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRLd: Howard

Deutch; with Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec
Baldwin, Diora Baird, Lizzy Caplan. (R, 101 min.)

Cook plays Tank, a self-described “professional
asshole” who gets paid by recently dumped men
to take out their ex-girlfriends and treat them like
garbage - the idea being that after a date with him,
those girlfriends will come running back to their
exes. Never mind that most women would probably
swear off men after being subjected to one of Tank’s
misogynistic emotional assaults. His newest client
is his roommate and best friend, Dustin (Biggs), a
sentimental schlemiel with a heart of gold who loses
his girlfriend, Alexis (Hudson), after confessing his
love and then glomming on to her like a wounded
puppy when she rebuffs him. For all its hundreds
of supposedly shocking profanities, its dozens of
MTV-ready verbal slap-downs, its mean-spirited mile-
a-minute war-of-the-sexes banter, and its subtle but
very real disdain for women (one has to wonder
about screenwriter Jordan Cahan), My Best Friend’s
Girl’s most offensive quality is its predictability.
(09/26/2008) - Josh Rosenblatt

CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, Southpark
Meadows, Tinseltown South

Love in Thoughts

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Bruhl , August Diehl , Anna Maria Muhe, Jana Pallaske , Thure Lindhardt.
(NR, 89 min.) Austin Film Society: The Third Wave - Contemporary
German Cinema. Set in 1927 Germany, the film is full of Weimar
decadence as it tells a story based on a true incident called the
Steglitz student murders. A working-class student poet is the guest
at the estate of a dissolute wealthy college friend. A suicide pact,
homosexuality, a libidinous sister, and more complicate the scenario.
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NIGHTS IN RODANTHE D: George c.

Wolfe; with Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Viola Davis, James
Franco, Christopher Meloni, Scott Glenn, Becky Ann Baker.
(PG-13, 97 min.)

Nights in Rodanthe is a flawed but occasionally
affecting love story about second chances and third
acts. Based on the Nicholas Spark novel about the
brief encounter between a troubled surgeon (Gere)
and a lonely woman (Lane) at a secluded inn on
Hatteras Island, the film does justice to the belief
that love comes at you when you least expect it. The
film, however, undermines itself at every turn, and
eventually enters familiar three-hanky territory, which
is nearly redeemed by the compelling presence of

Lane as a woman reborn. The way she comes to
life and transforms into a confident, sexualized
human being is what makes this movie watch-
able. Though the film doesn’t do her justice in the
final reels as it struggles to give us something
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chick by far. (09/26/2008) - Steve Davis

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Nueva Onda Movie Nights. This preview of several short films
screening in the festival (Oct. 9-12) include “Laura,” “Set B,”
“The Pain With Being Thirsty,” “Interval,” and “Cookies for
Sale.” Also screening is Episode 9, “Chicks With Discs,” of
MTV’s Austin Stories. @Nueva Onda, Wed., 8pm; free.

RIGHTEOUS KILL D: Jon Avnet; with Robert
De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino, John
Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy. (R, 101 min.)

There’s nothing righteous about this tired and
tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural; in
fact, it’s pretty much an abomination from the get-
go. Playing on filmgoers’ memories of De Niro and
Pacino’s salad days, Righteous Kill shows us a jokey
pair of grumpy old men, both of them horny SOBs
with semicurdled souls. Avnet’s direction is filled
with slo-mo, freeze-fades, and other annoyances.
Screenwriter Russell Gerwirtz frames the story with
De Niro’s not-so-young Detective Turk (get it?) “con-
fessing” his role in the murder of 14 lowlifes, who,
in his presumption, we’re all better off without. He’s
Travis Bickle’s gutter-cleansing moral monsoon made
flesh, a real rain of black-jacketed ballistics washing
the scum off the streets for good. Pacino’s Detective
Rooster (get it?) is the presumptive good cop, but
he’s also covering up for his partner, while softball
blue boys Wahlberg and Leguizamo sniff around
and eventually begin to smell the raging bullshit.
(09/19/2008) - Marc Savlov

★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, CM Cedar Park, Hill
Country Galleria, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South,
Westgate

TELL NO ONE D: Guillaume Canet; with
Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier,
Kristin Scott Thomas, Francois Berleand, Nathalie Baye, Jean
Rochefort. (NR, 125 min., subtitled)

French director Canet’s Tell No One has everything
a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs:
a citizen-hero who refuses to capitulate to unseen
and malevolent powers that are out to destroy him,

love and desperation as motivating forces, random
violence, at least one top-notch foot chase, and a
soundtrack that features both Otis Redding and Jeff
Buckley. The film’s hero is Alexandre Beck (Cluzet),
whose wife, Margot, vanishes one night and is pre-
sumed murdered. Flash forward to the eighth anni-
versary of her disappearance, and Alex receives an
anonymous video message that suggests everything
he knows about that horrible night may be wrong.
From that moment, Tell No One is a great ball of
unrelenting energy, but by the time Alex starts stum-
bling into answers, chances are you won’t even really
care to know what they are, because the thrill of Tell
No One isn’t in the knowing; it’s in the not knowing.
(08/01/2008) - Josh Rosenblatt

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TOWELHEAD D: Alan Ball; with Summer Bishil,
Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Peter Macdissi, Maria Bello,
Matt Letscher, Eugene Jones. (R, 124 min.)

Towelhead is a movie guaranteed to discomfit
and dismay, though the narrative’s acute observa-
tions are also leavened with humorous touches.
Based on Alicia Erian’s 2005 novel, Towelhead will
not appeal to all viewers with its dangerous plunge
into adolescent sexuality and identity. It’s a mine-
field out there, and it doesn’t help that Towelhead
is populated with a rash of unconscionable
adults, sexual predators, and epithet-tossing kids.
Towelhead tells the story from the young girl’s per-
spective and, in the process, pinpoints the realistic
confusion that comes from trying to make sense of
our society’s conflicting signals about a woman’s
desirability. The film marks Ball’s feature-directing
debut, and though Towelhead’ s plot may sound
similar to his award-winning American Beauty, Ball’s

Religulous

maintenance of the focus on the young girl rather
than the adults in the story makes all the differ-
ence. The film incites, and jabs, all while reminding
us how difficult it is to grow up female and sane in
this world. (09/26/2008) - Marjorie Baumgarten

★★★V Arbor

TYLER PERRY'S THE FAMILY
THAT PREYS D: Tyler Perry; with Alfre
Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, KaDee
Strickland, Cole Hauser, Taraji P. Henson, Kathy Bates.

(PG-13, 111 min.)

Contradictions abound in this messy and unfo-
cused drama that purports to believe that family is
everything, when all else fails. It’s as if director/
screenwriter Perry created a cast of characters with
split personalities. One minute, the nicest guy in
the world is clueless about his self-centered wife’s
infidelities and the fact that she treats him like
dirt; the next thing you know, he’s hitting her in the
jaw. It’s drama for the sake of drama, which only
underscores the fakery of it all. Perry may think
he’s given his film’s characters dimension and com-
plexity by investing them with multiple character-
istics, but all he’s really done is demonstrate that
he’s not spending enough time meshing character
development and plot together in a way that it all
makes sense. Old pros Bates and Woodard do
their best in their performances as the two female
leads, but it’s not enough to save this movie from
itself. (09/19/2008) - Steve Davis

★★ Highland, Metropolitan, Millennium, Tinseltown
North

THE WOMEN D: Diane English; with Meg Ryan,
Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada
Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher,
Cloris Leachman. (PG-13, 114 min.)

A remake of the 1939 George Cukor film of the
same name, this comedy about a society wife named
Mary (Ryan) who discovers her husband is cheating
on her isn’t particularly fun or funny. Director English,
who has had 13 years in development hell with the
project to bring it up to 21st century code, was the
creative force behind Murphy Brown, so it’s especially
disheartening that her former, admirable body blows
at the culture wars have been downgraded to The
Women’s confused seesaw between condemnation
and celebration of plastic surgery. The change in
Ryan’s appearance is so significant as to be sur-
real, and by the time her character has a sit-down
with her post-op mother, face swathed in the tell-tale
bandages of a new lift and played - egads! - by that
onetime warrior for the single working mom, Candice
Bergen, my mind was sufficiently blown. This is girl
power? I’ll not have what she’s having, thank you very
much. (09/12/2008) - Kimberley Jones

CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, Southpark
Meadows, Gateway, Tinseltown North, Westgate

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VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

D: Woody Allen; with Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall,
Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Chris
Messina, Kevin Dunn. (PG-13, 96 min.)

Yes, this is the new Woody Allen film widely
hyped for a threesome. Vicky (Hall, indefinable
but intriguing) is the smart, sensible brunette and
Cristina (Johansson) the amorous, free-thinking
blonde; together, they are American best friends
summering in Barcelona and falling, at a stag-
gered clip, for a sultry Spanish painter named Juan
Antonio (Bardem). It sounds like the setup for a
hot, sexy mess - and it might have been had Allen
scrapped Vicky and Cristina to focus on the scenic
glories of Gaudf’s Barcelona and the twin headspin
of Bardem and Cruz (who plays Juan Antonio’s
brawling ex-wife). But Allen’s take is too tooth-
less, too bemused with the ever-shifting dynamics
among the four players - shifts that often seem
unmotivated, despite the near-constant narration
(delivered by Christopher Evan Welch) that plainly
announces them. Vicky Cristina Barcleona is by no
means a bad film, but it’s irrefutable evidence that
Allen has aged - or cloistered - himself into irrel-
evance. (08/15/2008) - Kimberley Jones

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BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

thin fictional plot is applied to this up-close look at
Jamaica and the music scene. It features many of
reggae’s best performers - including Burning Spear,
Gregory Isaacs, Dr. Alimentado, Big Youth, Dillinger,
and more - as the cast. @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm; $2.

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THURSDAY \9

The Blues Brothers Quote-Along
(1980) D: John Landis; with John Belushi,

Dan Aykroyd , John Candy Carrie Fisher. (R, 133 min.)
@Alamo Ritz, 6:15pm.

Disco Inferno Sing-Along D. Various. (NR, 90
min.) @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm.

Hell on Wheels (2007) D: Bob Ray. (NR, 90
min.) DVD Release Party. Athleticism and exhibition-
ism are on display in this documentary about the
modern-day revival of women’s Roller Derby leagues
in Austin and elsewhere. The music is by ... And
You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The director
and producer will be in attendance. See “IndiePix
Rolls Out a Two-Disc DVD of ‘Hell on Wheels,”’

Sept. 26, for more on the film. @Alamo Drafthouse
South, 7pm.

Mindwarp (1992) D: Steve Barnett; with Bruce
Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Alicia, Elizabeth Kent.
(R, 91 min.) Terror Thursday. In this postapocalyptic
sci-fi movie, a woman is exiled from the computer-
controlled Inworld and must face the dangers of
the Outside with the world’s last unmutated man
(Campbell). Director Barnett will be in attendance.
@Alamo Ritz, 12mid; free.

The Office TV at the Alamo. @Alamo
Drafthouse Village, 7:30pm.

Vice-Presidential Debate TV at the Alamo.

@Alamo Drafthouse South, 7:15pm; (©Alamo
Drafthouse Village, 7:45pm.

SPACES

Berkeley in the ’ 60s (1990) D: Mark Kitchell.
(NR, 117 min.) Celluloid for Social Justice: The
Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries. Documentary
about the growth of the free-speech movement and
student activism. @CAL 100 (on the UT campus),
7pm; free.

The Unforeseen (2007) D: Laura Dunn.

(NR, 88 min.) DVD Release Party. Dunn’s award-
winning documentary looks at the history of
Barton Springs, Gary Bradley, development issues,
and the relationship of Austin’s environmen-
tal activism to the world at large. (*) (©Barton
Springs, 7:30pm; $3.

FRIDAY UO

Cinema Touching Disabilities Film
Festival This year’s features are The
Music Within on Friday along with the college student
film competition, and A Patch of Blue on Saturday
along with the high school student film competi-
tion. See www.ctdfilmfest.org for all details. (©Alamo
Drafthouse South, 6:30pm.

Forrest Gump (1994) D: Robert Zemeckis;
with Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti
Williamson, Sally Field. (PG-13, 142 min.) Master
Pancake. Run, Forrest, run ... far away from these
merry jokesters who are certain to put your life
story through the wringer. (*) (©Alamo Ritz, 7,
10:15pm.

SATURDAY 04

Cinema Touching Disabilities Film
Festival @Alamo Drafthouse South, 6:30pm.

(See Fri., 10/3.)

Forrest Gump (1994) @Alamo Ritz, 7,
10:15pm. (See Fri., 10/3.)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick,
Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fans
have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp”
thing live for more than 30 years straight. For more
info, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse
Village, 12mid.

SPACES

Shaun of the Dead (2004) D. Edgar Wright;
with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Dylan
Moran, Lucy Davis, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton. (R, 97
min.) Zombie Fest. This “romantic comedy ... with
zombies” has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror,
love, and death. (*) (©University Hills Library, 1pm;
free.

SUNDAY

City Lights (1931) D: Charles Chaplin;
with Chaplin , Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers. (G, 87 min.)
Cinema Cocktails. In this quintessential Little Tramp
movie, Chaplin’s character falls in love with a blind
flower girl and endures a host of comic adventures
while earning the money that will pay for her opera-
tion. @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm.

MONDAY

Heroes TV at the Alamo. (©Alamo
Drafthouse Village, 9:30pm; (©Alamo Drafthouse
Lake Creek, 8pm.

Quinceahera (2006) D: Richard Glatzer and
Wash Westmoreland; with Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia,
Chalo Gonzalez, J.R. Cruz, Jesus Casta nos-Chima,
Araceli Gazman-Rico, David W. Ross. (R, 90 min.)
Scion Route ’08. Race, age, class, and sexuality col-
lide in an changing Los Angeles neighborhood. (*)
(©Alamo Drafthouse South, 9pm; free, but RSVP at
www.scion.com/route is necessary.

Rockers (1978) D: Ted Bafaloukos; with Leroy
“Horsemouth” Wallace, Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall,
Monica Craig, Gregory Isaacs. (NR, 100 min.) Music
Monday. Rare screening of the most famous reg-
gae movie that isn’t The Harder They Come. A very

“At the River I Stand” (1993) D: David
Appleby , Allison Graham and Steven John Ross; narrat-
ed by Paul Winfield. (NR, 56 min.) Celluloid for Social
Justice: The Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries.

Documentary recounts the two months leading to
Martin Luther King Jr.’s death in 1968, coinciding
with the 65-day Memphis sanitation workers’ strike.
@CAL 100 (on the UT campus), 7pm; free.

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) D. Stacy Peralta;
narrated by Sean Penn. (PG-13, 91 min.) Art Seen
and I Luv Video: Bike-In Film. Engrossing, definitive
documentary on the birth of Southern California’s
outlaw skateboarding culture. (*) (©Spider House,
8pm.

Ghostbusters (1984) D: Ivan Reitman; with Bill
Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver,
Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson. (PG, 107
min.) Monday Movies and Margaritas. Drink specials;
movie at sundown. (*) (©Belmont, 7:30pm; free.

Ivan Vasilevich Changes Profession (1973)

D; Leonid Gaidai; with Aleksandr Demyanenko , Yuri
Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Krachkovskaya.

(NR, 93 min.) Center for Russian, East European,
and Eurasian Studies. In this popular Russian com-
edy, an apartment superintendent and a petty burglar
time travel to the 16th century while Ivan the Terrible
transports to the year 1973. @GRG 102 (UT campus
on 24th Street.), 7:30pm; free.

Simon Birch (1998) D: Mark Steven Johnson;
with Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzelio, Ashley Judd ,
Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Jan Hooks, Jim Carrey.
(PG, 110 min.) The Superhero in You. The sincerity of
its players, the level gaze of its camera, and a genu-
ine affection for its story (suggested by John Irving’s
A Prayer for Owen Meany) keep this film afloat. (*)
(©Manchaca Library, 6:30pm.

TUESDAY V «

City Lights (1931) (©Alamo Ritz,

10:10pm. (See Sun., 10/5.)

Love in Thoughts (2004) See p.94.

Presidential Debate TV at the Alamo.

(©Alamo Ritz, 7:30pm; (©Alamo Drafthouse Village,
7:45pm; (©Alamo Drafthouse South, 8pm; (©Alamo
Drafthouse Lake Creek, 8pm.

SPACES

1910, the Spiritist Revolution (2006)

D: Alejandro Fernandez Solsona. (NR, 72 min.) Se

Busca: La Revolucion Mexicana. Documentary about
former Mexican president Francisco I. Madero.
(©Mexican American Cultural Center, 8pm; free.

oft screen

Career-Building Classes From Austin School of Film An excellent slate of adult classes is
available for your cinematic advancement at the Austin School of Film. Also, you can become an Apple Pro
Certified Final Cut Pro user. Tech up, cineastes. See website for details, www.austinfilmschool.org/classes.

Network Austin Mixer invites film and entertainment-biz people to schmooze, network, and do what
they do best: entertain one another in a movie-happy crowd. This week’s featured speaker is Barbara Morgan,
president of the Austin Film Festival. Wed., Oct. 8, 6:30pm. Mother Egan’s Irish Pub, 715 W. Sixth, 478-7747.
Free, www.networkaustinmixer.com.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is due
the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline
for the Oct. 17 issue is Monday, Oct. 6. Include name of
event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a descrip-
tion, and any available photos or artwork.

Send submissions to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin,
78765, fax 458-6910, or e-mail.

Contact Marjorie Baumgarten (Special Screenings):
specialscreenings@austinchronicle.com;

Wayne Alan Brenner (Offscreen): calendar@austinchronicle.com.

Reel Women: First Monday Mix No agenda, no schedule; just mingling, mixing, meeting, bragging,
commiserating. Find someone you do (or don’t) want to collaborate with. Recruit for your next project. Mon.,
Oct. 6, 6-8pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308. Free, www.reelwomen.org.

SXSW 2009: Call for Entries Filmmakers are invited to submit their new works to the popular annual
festival. SXSW considers any and all categories of filmmaking, from narrative to documentary, experimental to
music video, short to feature. Complete submission rules and regulations are available on the website. Early
deadline: Nov. 14. Final deadline: Dec. 12. www.sxsw.com/film.

The Screenplay Workshop All classes are taught by professional screenwriters and meet in
Central Austin. Ongoing classes include: Screenwriting Master Class, Tuesdays, Sept. 30-Dec. 2, 7-9:30pm,
$450; Screenwriting Short Course, Tuesdays, Sept. 30-0ct. 28, 7-9:30pm, $250; the Screenwriter’s Toolkit,
Wednesdays, Oct. 8-Dec. 3, 7-9pm , $390. Also: Private Instruction & Story Consultation Packages, 7V2 hours of
instruction, $370. www.thescreenplayworkshop.org.

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“Aime Cesaire, A Voice That Goes Down
Through History - Part III” (1994) D: Euzhan

Palcy. (NR, 52 min.) Celluloid for Social Justice: The
Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries. Background on
the first president of Senegal. (©CAL 100 (on the UT
campus), 7pm; free.

Coming Out (1989) D; Heiner Carow; with
Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer,
Michael Gwisdek. (NR, 113 min.) UT Department of
Germanic Studies: Sexual Revolutions in German
Cinema. One of the first films to deal with what it
was like to be gay behind the Iron Curtain in East
Germany. (®E.P Schoch 4.104 Conference Room (on
the UT campus), 7pm; free.

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) (©Sustainable
Waves, 8pm. (See Mon., 10/6.)

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

D: Robert Redford; with Ruben Blades, Richard
Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon,
Melanie Griffith , John Heard, Christopher Walken,
Freddie Fender. (R, 117 min.) Hispanic Life on Film.
In Redford’s parable set in a small rural community
in northern New Mexico, the poor farmers stand
together and fight the rich over their control of the
area’s water rights and their vision for the future.
(©Terrazas Library, 6:45pm; free.

WEDNESDAY

City Lights (1931) (©Alamo Ritz,

10:30pm. (See Sun., 10/5.)

The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

D: George McCowan; with Jack Palance, Carol Lynley ;
John Ireland, Barry Morse. (PG, 95 min.) Weird
Wednesday. This sci-fi bottom feeder has no relation-
ship to the H.G. Wells classic. Rather, it’s a story of
the last refugees from the destroyed planet Earth,
who are now fighting for survival on the moon.
(©Alamo Ritz, 12mid; free.

SPACES

Austin Asian American Film Festival
Preview Nueva Onda Movie Nights. See p.96.

“Black Panther” and “San Francisco
State: On Strike” (1969) (NR, 45 min.)

Celluloid for Social Justice: The Legacy of 1968 in
Documentaries. These two films are archival primary-
source materials. “Black Panther” is a 15-minute
film made by the party to promote their cause. “San
Francisco State: On Strike” is a 20-minute docu-
ment filmed by the students during their six-month
strike out of which emerged the first ethnic studies
program in higher education. (©CAL 100 (on the UT
campus), 7pm; free.

Prisoner 13 (1933) D: Fernando de Fuentes;
with Alfredo Del Diestro, Luis G. Barreiro, Adela
Sequeyro , Arturo Campoamor. (NR, 76 min.) Se

Busca: La Revolucion Mexicana. One of de Fuentes’
trilogy of films on the Mexican Revolution, all of
which offer realistic portrayals of the armed conflict.
Outdoor screening. (©Mexican American Cultural
Center, 8pm; free.

Ruby’s Town (2007) D: Erik McCowan. (NR,

73 min.) Ruby Begonia, the “world’s fastest turkey,”
stars in this documentary about the turkey capital of
Cuero, Texas, and its various turkey festivities. For
more on the film, see www.myspace.com/rubystown. The
director will be in attendance. (©The Hideout Theatre,
7pm.

Slacker Uprising (2008) See p.90.

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

D: Mark Waters; with Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise
Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn,
Seth Rogen, Martin Short, Sarah Bolger. (PG, 96 min.)
Family Movie Night. Children’s fantasy. (*)

(©Pleasant Hill Branch Library, 6:30pm; free.

THURSDAY 09

Anguish (1987) D: Bigas Luna; with
Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul,

Angel Jove , Clara Pastor ; Isabel Garcia Lorca. (R, 89
min.) Terror Thursday: Zelda Rubinstein Live. Zelda
Rubinstein, the diminutive psychic from Poltergeist,
stars in this horror convolution that strings together
reality and fantasy in an unsettling symbiosis. Luna
is the esteemed director of Jamon! Jamon! (©Alamo
Ritz, 12mid.

COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC

Call + Response (2008) D: Justin Dillon.
(PG-13, 86 min.) This “rockumentary” pairs celebri-
ties and musicians to help inform viewers through
live musical performances, undercover footage,
and interviews about the issue of child slavery and
human trafficking here in the U.S. and around the
world. See “Human Traffic,” p.61, for more on the
movie. @Dobie, 7, 9.

The Office @Alamo Drafthouse Village,
7:30pm. (See Thu., 10/2.)

Teen Witch Sing-Along (1989) D; Dorian
Walker; with Robyn Lively ; Zelda Rubinstein. (PG-13, 90
min.) Zelda Rubinstein Live. @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm.

SPACES

Nirvana (1997) D: Gabriele Salvatores;
with Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono,

Sergio Rubini, Stefania Rocca, Amanda Sandrelli,
Emmanuelle Seigner. (R, 96 min.) II Circolo Italiano.
Sci fi. @MEZ BO. 306 100 (basement of Mezes on
the UT campus), 8pm; free.

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Austin Asian American Film Festival Opening night on Thursday (Oct. 9) is Arthur Dong’s acclaimed
documentary Hollywood Chinese, and screens at the Alamo Ritz Downtown, where it will be followed by a party
at Arthouse. Then on Friday, Oct. 10, the rest of the festival migrates north to the Alamo Village. See the web-
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Grand Canyon Adventure 3D: River at
Risk (2008) D: Greg MacGillivray; narrated by
Robert Redford. (NR, 40 min.) The river at risk is
the Colorado. Water-conservation advocate Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. joins ethnobotanist and author Wade
Davis and their 18-year-old daughters for a rafting
trip down the river to the parched Colorado delta.

Haunted Castle 3D (2001) See p.92.

Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric
Adventure (2007) D: Sean MacLeod Phillips;
narrated by Liev Schreiber. (NR, 40 min.) National
Geographic uses photo-realistic, computer-generat-
ed, 3-D animation to transport audiences back more
than 65 million years ago, when a great inland sea
divided North America in two.

Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: Scott
Swofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39 min.)
Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screen as the
state is shown to be a land capable of growing
everything from grapefruit to microchips.

U2 3D (2008) D: Mark Pellington and
Catherine Owens. (G, 85 min.) In 3-D and on the
IMAX screen, these Irish rockers really rattle and
hum.

Wild Ocean 3D (2008) D; Luke Cresswell and
Steve McNicholas. (NR, 40 min.) Filmed off the coast
of South Africa, this film examines the food chain,
starting with the sardine runs, which are followed by
dolphins, sharks, birds, humans, and other fish that
opportunistically follow the migration.

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Graveyard

Stubb’s, Saturday 4

Clutch and the Sword headline.

Graveyard opens.
Such is an assig-
nation generally
reserved for the tail
end of a three-band
bill headlined by
Maryland’s veteran
grinders Clutch,
and/or in this
case, the big stage
local debut of

Graveyard’s dark mood on
“Submarine Blues” and “Blue
Soul” bleeds with frontman
Joakim Nilsson’s scabbed croon
until the band lifts off like a sau-
cer buried in middle earth.

“When Joakim and I started
our first band in the middle
Nineties, we wanted to sound
like Sabbath,” admits Edlund.
“The other band we had was a
little more loose and psychedel-
ic. When we started Graveyard,
we wanted it to sound more
straightforward, not so much
psychedelic, but like a punch in
the face.”

Take off must be quite a rush.

“You feel like you’re going
to explode or something. You
want to take the bass guitar and
smash it on the floor. It’s a great
feeling, I can tell you that.”

- Raoul Hernandez

Metallica openers

the Sword. Graveyard’s withering
blue cheer at Red 7 on Sept. 10,
supporting fellow Swedes Witchcraft,
makes its first slot at Stubb’s more
imperative than even the top bill-
ing on the marquee. Not only is the
Gothenburg quartet’s eponymous
debut one of the year’s best record-
ings, it restores blues to metal.

“Yes, yes,” agrees bassist Rikard
Edlund from the band’s van. “John
Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf - all
those guys. Muddy Waters. I adore
them. That’s where the whole
hard rock thing started. Then the
English started to do the blues,
and they turned out to be harder.
Then it went back to the States
and got even harder and harder.
Back and forth, you know.

“Blues is definitely the beginning
of music like metal, so, of course,
you can’t not listen to the blues if
you’re into metal.”

RA RA RIOT

Parish, Friday 3

Ra Ra Riot is still just a baby
band, but what a ride it’s been
since forming in 2006: world tours,
South by Southwest, and the June
2007 drowning of the Syracuse
quintet’s original drummer. The
energetic indie rock outfit just
released its Barsuk debut, The
Rhumb Line, and it rocks, cutely.
Complementing the peppery head-
liners are Chicago poppers Walter
Meego and Berkeley’s Morning
Benders. - Melanie Haupt

AFRISSIPPI
Flamingo Cantina, Friday 3

It sounds like an utterly unique
musical fusion: West African tradi-
tion meets North Mississippi blues.
Guelel Kumba lives in Oxford, Miss.,
but is a descendant of the nomadic
Fulani people. Eric Deaton came
of age jamming in juke joints with
bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and
R.L. Burnside. If their collaboration
on Alliance (Hill Country Records)
is any indication, this Austin debut
should be a real adventure in
“world music.” - Jay Trachtenberg

EL FLACO

Scoot Inn, Saturday 4

Simultaneously adventurous,
scabrous, and contagious, El
Flaco was the one that got away,
never quite making the transition
to fama y fortuna on the 1990s
X-radio circuit. A decade later, the
local power trio’s catalog holds up
admirably, making Friday’s reunion
benefiting the Handsome Joel
Foundation an event worth hiring
a babysitter for. Contemporaneous
punk perversion from the Pocket
FishRmen and a shot of psychedeli-
cized lollygaggery from Foot Foot
close the deal. - Greg Beets

JAGUARES

Stubb’s, Sunday 5

Ten days after Manu Chao huffed
and puffed and nearly blew Stubb’s
into Waller Creek comes another
icon of la raza, Mexico City’s Saul
Hernandez, whose previous band,
Caifanes, equals Chao’s Mano
Negra in rock en Espanol mythol-
ogy. Jaguares’ fifth disc, 45, reloads
Hernandez’s cream-filled vocals
into a modern rock template not
nearly as nuclear but as sincere
as the Smashing Pumpkins. The
band’s previous Stubb’s services
couldn’t serve this Sabbath any
more devout. - Raoul Hernandez

SAVIOURS

Emo’s, Monday 6

Oakland quartet Saviours finally
reprises its SXSW 08 Sword blitz-
krieg at the United States Art
Authority. Into Abaddon, Saviours’
second LP and Kemado debut,
boils the brew just right: Lizzy tails,
Sabbath spleen, and Motorhead
wart, their beef in the bloodlust
not midsection. Austin’s the Roller
matches up in demolition and Sacred
Shock opens. - Raoul Hernandez

HA AM DAY Tuesday 7

The Health Alliance for Austin
Musicians has benefits all over town
today, featuring sets from the Monstas
(Continental Club), Gary Clark Jr.
(Antone’s), Carolyn Wonderland
(Threadgill’s World HQ), and many
more. See “Off the Record,” p.67, for
the whole shebang.

- Audra Schroeder

EARACHE!

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TODD SNIDER
Cactus Cafe, Wednesday 8 &
Thursday 9

While his new EF? Peace Queer ; is
rambling and regrettably short, for-
mer CenTexan Todd Snider remains
one of America’s best singer-
songwriters. In concert, he roams
from gut-busting to eye-misting in
a Nashville minute, lasering in on
politics and relationships with an
unassuming eye for detail and a
Stoner’s sense of the absurd. Two
nights ring in his birthday, and
Thursday’s show benefits the Austin
Humane Society. - Jim Caligiuri

MONOTONIX

Mohawk, Thursday 9

Tel Aviv trio Monotonix isn’t really
into the whole “playing on stage”
deal. No, they prefer crowd interac-
tion, setting things on fire, and emp-
tying garbage cans. 2008’s debut
ER Body Language (Drag City), is a
nice, thick slab of 1970s rock that’s
great for pounding beers in your living
room. Live, however, drums, guitar,
and mustachioed singer Ami Shalev
form like Voltron for a jaw-dropping
show. Let’s see if Mohawk’s new wall
can contain it. Oklahoma shredder
El Paso Hot Button and locals the
Laughing open. - Audra Schroeder

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

soundcheck

COMA IN ALGIERS, ELVIS

Scoot Inn , Friday 3

Local angst, distorted, plus Cartright
and You Make Engine.

HENRY ROLLINS

La Zona Rosa , Sunday 5
Watch out for bulging
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LOW LINE CALLER CD RELEASE

Mohawk , Friday 3
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QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT

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TITO & TARANTULA

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One World Theatre, Monday 6

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Philly duo finds the beauty
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ZOROASTER Red 7, Thursday 9
Feral metal via Hotlanta.

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Waterloo Records, 5pm

Saturday: Sierra, Lawrence Glass,

Sonny’s Vintage, 5pm
Monday: Dana Falconberry,

Waterloo Records, 5pm
Tuesday: The Derailers, Asylum Street
Spankers, Waterloo Records, 4:30pm

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ANTONE’S, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424
ARCHIVE LOUNGE, 6406 N. 1-35, Ste. 1600, 452-1114
ARTZ RIB HOUSE, 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283
AUSTIN CITY HALL PLAZA, Cesar Chavez between Guadalupe and
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AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET DOWNTOWN, Fourth & Guadalupe,
236-0074

AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735, 2103 E.M. Franklin, 926-0043
AUSTIN MUSIC HALL, 208 Nueces, 263-4146
AUSTIN’S PIZZA, 1817 S. Lamar, 795-8888

B. D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB, 204 E. Sixth, 494-1335
BABY ACAPULCO’S NO. 3, 5610 N. 1-35, 302-1366
BABY ACAPULCO’S NO. 5, 9505-B Stonelake, 795-9000
BASTROP SENIOR CENTER, 1008 Water St., Bastrop,

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BB ROVERS, 12636 Research Ste. B-101, 335-9504
BEAUTY BAR, 617 E. Seventh, 391-1943
BEERLAND, 711 Red River, 479-ROCK (7625)

THE BELMONT, 305 W. Sixth, 457-0300

BERRYHILL BAJA GRILL, 3600 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 327-9033

BOAT HOUSE GRILL, 6812 RR 620 N., 249-5200

BOTTICELLI’S, 1321 S. Congress, 916-1315

’BOUT TIME, 9601 N. 1-35, 832-5339

BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189

THE BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 480-8330

C. HUNTS ICE HOUSE, 9611 McNeil Rd., 836-0558
CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 475-6515
CAFE MUNDI, 1704 E. Fifth, 236-8634

THE CANARY ROOST, 11900 Metric, 836-6360
CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790
CEDAR STREET, 208 W. Fourth, 495-9669
CENTRAL MARKET NORTH, 4001 N. Lamar, 206-1000
CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH, 4477 S. Lamar, 899-4300
CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham, San Marcos,
512/353-3777

CHEZ ZEE, 5406 Balcones, 454-2666

CLEMENTINE COFFEE BAR, 2200 Manor Rd., 472-9900

CLUB DE VILLE, 900 Red River, 457-0900

THE COCKPIT, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010

CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 441-2444

COOL RIVER CAFE, 4001 Parmer, 835-0010

COPA BAR & GRILL, 217 Congress, 479-5002

COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla, Granger, 512/859-0700

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE, 606 E. Seventh, 480-5988

CUBA LIBRE, 409 Colorado, 472-2822

DETOUR BAR & GRILL, 1113 RR 620 N., 266-2279

DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 478-0336

DRUNGO ICE HOUSE, 2828 Rio Grande, 478-6666

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE, 301 E. Fifth, 472 1860

EL SOL Y LA LUNA, 1224 S. Congress, 444-7770

ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 473-2279

ELK’S LODGE, 400 Dawson, 442-8535

ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 478-2979

EMO’S, 603 Red River, 477-3667

EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie, 282-2586

FADO, 214 W. Fourth, 457-0172

FLAMINGO CANTINA, 515 E. Sixth, 494-9336

FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE, 4600 Guadalupe, 380-0097

FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd., 480-8646

FRANK ERWIN CENTER, 1701 Red River, 471-7744

FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE, 10903 Pecan Park Blvd., 506-8700

FREDDIE’S PLACE, 1703 S. First, 445-9197

FRIENDS, 208 E. Sixth, 320-8193

GARRISON PARK HARBOR, 730 W. Stassney #120, 462-2664
GIDDY UPS, 12010 Manchaca, 280-4732
THE GINGER MAN, 304 W. Fourth, 473-8801

GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON, 5434 Burnet Rd., 458 1813
GREEN PASTURES, 811 W. Live Oak, 444-4747
GRUENE HALL, 1281 Gruene Rd., New Braunfels, 830/606-1281,
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GUERO’S TACO BAR, 1412 S. Congress, 447-7688
HANOVER’S, 108 E. Main, Pflugerville, 512/670-9617
HEADHUNTERS, 720 Red River, 236-0188

HICKORY STREET BAR & GRILLE, 800 Congress, 477 8968
HILL’S CAFE, 4700 S. Congress, 851-9300
HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747
HOT MAMA’S ESPRESSO BAR, 2401 E. Sixth, 476-6262
HOUSE WINE, 408 Josephine, 322-5210
HYATT LOST PINES RESORT & SPA, 575 Hyatt Lost Pines Rd.,
Lost Pines, 512/308-1234
JO’S COFFEE, 1300 S. Congress, 444-3800
JOVITA’S, 1619 S. First, 447-7825
LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290 E., 459-8729
LA ZONA ROSA, 612 W. Fourth, 472-2293

LAMBERTS, 401 W. Second, 494-1500

LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 327-9889

LATITUDE 30, 512 San Jacinto, 472-3335

LITTLE MEXICO RESTAURANT, 2304 S. First, 462 2188
THE LOADING DOCK, 708 S. Austin St., Georgetown,
512/864-2100

LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 701 W. Riverside,
482-0800

LOUIE’S 106, 106 E. Sixth, 476-1997
LUCKY LOUNGE, 209-A W. Fifth, 479-7700
LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE, 141 E. Hopkins, San Marcos,
512/558-7399

MAGGIE MAE’S, 323 E. Sixth, 478-8541
MANUELS, 310 Congress, 472-7555
MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 444-0261
MEAN-EYED CAT, 1621 W. Fifth, 472-6326
MOHAWK, 912 Red River, 482-8404
MOMO’S, 618 W. Sixth, 479-8848

MOONRIVER, 2002 N. Pace Bend Rd., Spicewood, 512/264-2064

MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUB, 715 W. Sixth, 478-7747
MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN, 4215 Duval St., 451-3994
MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS, 3825 Lake Austin Blvd.,
477-2900

MUGSHOTS, 407 E. Seventh, 236-0008
MULLIGAN’S, 900 RR 620 S., 263-3305
NASTY’S, 606 Maiden, 453-4349
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NUEVO LEON, 1501 E. Sixth, 479-0097
NUNO’S ON SIXTH, 422 E. Sixth, 833-5133
NUTTY BROWN CAFE, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 301-4648
THE OAKS, 10206 FM 973 N., Manor, 512/278-8788
THE OASIS, 6550 Comanche Trail, 266-2442
ONE WORLD THEATRE, 7701 Bee Caves Rd., 330-9500
THE PARISH, 214 E. Sixth, 479-0474
THE PARLOR, 100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965
PARMER LANE TAVERN, 2121 Parmer #1, 339-0663
PATSY’S COWGIRL CAFE, 5001 E. Ben White, 444-2020
PIONEER FARMS, 10621 Pioneer Farms Dr., 837-1215
PLUSH, 617 Red River, 478-0099

POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood,
512/264-0318

RACK DADDY’S, 4410 E. Riverside, 389-1577

RAIN ON 4TH, 217 W. Fourth, 494-1150

REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Research, 335-5115

RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 476-8100

RED EYED FLY, 715 Red River, 474-1084

RED FEZ, 209-B W. Fifth, 478-5120

RENAISSANCE HOTEL, 9721 Arboretum, 343-2626

RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter, 512/392-3132

RINGSIDE AT SULLIVAN’S, 300 Colorado, 495-6504

ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder, Round Rock, 512/218-0813

ROADHOUSE RAGS, 1600 Fortview, 762-8797

ROMEO’S GEORGETOWN, 701 Main, Georgetown, 512/868-1300

ROOM 710, 710 Red River, 476-0997

ROUGH HOLLOW YACHT CLUB & MARINA, 105 Yacht Club Cove,
Lakeway, 512/261-2288

RUTA MAYA, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637

SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886
SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 282-0083
SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552
SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200
SHENANIGANS, 13233 Pond Springs Rd., 258-9717
SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL, 9012 Research Ste. C l,
380-9443

SHOOTERS BILLIARDS, 11416 RR 620 N., 401-2060
SONNY’S VINTAGE, 2928 Guadalupe, 628-0670
SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 476-8017
STARDUST CLUB, 11940 Manchaca, 280-8590
STUBB’S, 801 Red River, 480-8341
THE STUDIO, 5804 S. 1-35, 467-7900
T.C.’S LOUNGE, 1413 Webberville Rd., 926-2200
TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 255-1300
TEXAS UNION BALLROOM, UT campus, 24th and Guadalupe
THINGS CELTIC, 1806 W. 35th, 472-2358
THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 472-9304
TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL, 2201 College, 443-4200
THE TRIANGLE, 4600 Guadalupe,

TRIPLE CROWN, 206 N. Edward Gary, San Marcos, 512/396-2236
TRIUMPH CAFE, 3808 Spicewood Springs Rd., 343-1875
TROPHY’S, 2008 S. Congress, 447-0969
VICTORY GRILL, 1104 E. 11th, 902-5057
THE WATER TANK, 7309 McNeil Dr., 331-9831
WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 360, 6203 Capital of TX Hwy. N.,
418-9700

WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREET, 1106 W. 38th, 451 5245

WATERLOO RECORDS, 600-A N. Lamar, 474-2500

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YARD DOG, 1510 S. Congress, 912-1613

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Pandemonium, Attic Ted,

Carousel Lounge

FRI 03

Burlesque the Vote w/ MC

Rudy Ramirez, Antone’s

SAT 04

Bastrop Music Fest, CASA
of Bastrop Benefit w/

Daniel Conti, El Tule, Whiskey
Meyers, Clay McClinton,

Eric Tessmer, Carolyn
Wonderland, the Love Band,
Myrna Cabello, Crosswind,
Freddie Steady, Larry Wilson,
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October

THU 2

Bexar County Bastards,

Continental Club

SuperFunk Fantasy,

Cool River Cafe

The Follow Through, Elysium
Jordan Mitchell,

Flamingo Cantina
Opia, Headhunters

Bombardment by Aeroplane,

Lucy’s on the Square
Jeff Strahan, Poodie’s Hilltop
Bar & Grill

Bloody Knuckles, Room 710
Emory Quinn, Saxon Pub
Porcelain, Sherlock’s Baker St.
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The Spring Standards, Stubb s
Saul Williams, Texas Union
Ballroom

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Terry Fator, Austin Music Hall

Ooga Boogas, Beerland
The Usual Suspects,

the Belmont

Jackopierce, Cactus Cafe
South Texas Destroyers,

Cheatham Street Warehouse

Calamity Cubes,

Continental Club
SuperFunk Fantasy,

Cool River Cafe
Yip Yip, Emo’s
Afrissippi, Eric Deaton,
Flamingo Cantina
Roger Clyne & the
Peacemakers, Gruene Hall
Bukkaka Daydream,
Headhunters

ARRIVAL, Long Center for the
Performing Arts

Hammer, Lucy’s on the Square

Mike Stern, Yellowjackets,
One World Theatre
Ra Ra Riot, Walter Meego,
the Morning Benders,

the Parish

Jeff Strahan, Poodie’s Hilltop
Bar & Grill

Dayglo Abortions, Red 7

Family Music Fest, Benefit

w/ Cowgirl Sue & Lucas
Miller, Wild Basin Winds,

That Damned Band, Mariachi
Relampago, Mountain Man,
Pinnacle Brass Quintet,

Austin Lyric Opera, Beaumont
LaGrange, Austin Banjo Club,
Pioneer Farms

Kaos Radio Benefit w/

You People, Nanosmash, the
Blood Royale, Room 710

Dell Children’s Medical
Center Benefit w/ Paul
Wall, ZBT House

SUN 05

Yam Jam, Operation Turkey
Benefit w/ Porterdavis,

Mingo Fishtrap, Guy Forsyth,
Carolyn Wonderland,

Threadgill’s World HQ

TUE 07 (HAAM DAY)

HAAM Benefit w/ Adrian
& the Sickness, Tia Carrera,
Dixie Witch, Room 710

HAAM Benefit w/ Bob

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Barbara K, Greezy Wheels,
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Trashy & the Kid, the Hunz,

Red Eyed Fly

Clay McClinton, Saxon Pub
Gary Allan, Adam Gregory,

Stubb’s

Ra Ra Riot, Waterloo Records

SAT 4

The Kooks, the Whigs,

Antone’s

Long Gone Daddys, Beerland
Jackopierce, Cactus Cafe
Max Stalling, Cheatham Street
Warehouse

The Push, Club de Ville

Whiskey Business,

Drungo Ice House

Quintron & Miss Pussycat,
Golden Triangle, Ooga
Boogas, Hat Talk, Emo’s
Mystic Vibes, Flamingo
Cantina

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American Mob, Headhunters
ARRIVAL, Long Center for the
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Physics of Meaning, Mohawk
Clay McClinton, Whiskey
Meyers, the Oaks
Stars Collide, Red Eyed Fly
Blood Royale, Nanosmash,
Room 710

Synical & Gee Weezy,
Smokey Smoke, Ruta Maya
Sierra, Sonny’s Vintage
Clutch, Graveyard, Stubb’s
New Riders of the Purple
Sage, Threadgill’s World HQ
Backsliders, PJ & the Bear,
Trophy’s

Paul Wall, ZBT House

SUN 5

The Shondes, Emo’s
New American Mob,

Headhunters

Henry Rollins, La Zona Rosa
Jaguares, Stubb’s

MON 6

Saviours, Emo’s

L.A. Dies, Hole in the Wall

The Guess Who,

One World Theatre

TUE 7

Madagascar Slim, Bill
Bourne, Cactus Cafe
Knuckle Yummy,

Continental Club

TsuShiMaMIRe, Puff Puff,

Emo’s

Rodney Hayden,

Gruene Hall

Pattern Is Movement,

Mohawk

WED 8

Todd Snider, Cactus Cafe

The Follow Through,

Carousel Lounge
Rahim, Emo’s
The Cheetah Girls,

Frank Erwin Center

Yelle, the Funeral Party,

Mohawk

Presidents of the United
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Stubb’s

Fred Eaglesmith,

Threadgill’s World HQ
Ethos, Trophy’s

THU 9

Boyce Avenue, Antone’s
Ken Waldman, Beerland
Todd Snider, Cactus Cafe
Midwest Monster,

Continental Club
Insect Fable, Creekside Lounge
Ron Wilkins Quartet,

Elephant Room
The Academy Is,

Carolina Liar, Hey Monday,
Glynn Wedgewood & J.T.,
Emo’s

Monotonix, El Paso Hot
Button, Mohawk
Shiny Toy Guns, Jonezetta,
Delta Fiasco, the Parish
Zoroaster, Red 7
People vs. De la Rosa, Opia,
Room 710

The Fundamentalists,

Scoot Inn & Bier Garten

Chris Collingwood, Calhoun,

Stubb’s

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ELAINE GREER w/ One Hundred Flowers,

Sea Legs

SAT 10/11 @ 9PM

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FRI 10/17 @ 9PM
REVERSE X-RAYS CD RELEASE w/

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SAT 10/4 @ 10PM

SUNSET w/ Physics of Meaning, Diagonals,
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TUE 10/7 @ 10PM

PATTERN IS MOVEMENT w/ Balmorhea

WED 10/8 @ 9PM

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Hot Button, The Laughing

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Nachtmystium (Red 7), 10/18 - Bart Davenport (Mohawk), 10/21 - Death Set (Red 7), 10/22 - Talkdemonic (Mohawk), 10/24-
25 - Beats ‘n 1 Treats Competion (Mohawk), 10/25 - Crime in Stereo (Red 7), 10/27 - MC Chris (Red 7), 10/30 - Magnolia
Electric Co. (Mohawk), 1 0/31 - The Redwalls (Club DeVille), 1 0/31 - Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters (Mohawk), 1 1/6 - Bright
Black Morning Light (Mohawk), 1 1/7 - Local Music is Sexy (Mohawk), 11/8-9 - Fun Fun Fun Fest (Waterloo Park), 1 1/9 - Girl
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11/15 - King Khan and BBQ (Mohawk), 11/18 - Danielson (Mohawk), 11/18 - Marnie Stern
(Mohawk), 1 1/20 - Torche (Red 7), 11/21 - Anal Cunt (Red 7), 1 1/21 - Von Iva (Beauty Bar),

11/21 - Gang Gang Dance (Mohawk), 11/21- Impossible Shapes (Mohawk), 11/22 - Tearn^

Fabrication (Mohawk), 11/25- Subtle (Mohawk), 1 1/26 - Blitzen Trapper (Mohawk),

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THU 02

219 west Acoustic Jungle
( 8 : 00 )

311 club Joe Valentine (9:30)

ABIA: EARL CAMPBELL’S SPORTS BAR

Bruce Jones (3:30)

ABIA: HIGHLAND LAKES BAR CadaqueS

(3:30)

AMSTERDAM cafe Kent Mayhew
(9:00)

antone’S Kid Gloves, the Steps,
Underdriven (8:00)

artz rib house Lone Star Swing
(7:30)

b.d. riley’S Irish pub Jimi Lee

baby acapulco’S no. 3 Cienfuegos
( 8 : 00 )

BEAUTY BAR La Calle Blanca
w/ DJ Orion

BEERLAND The Glasses

the belmont Mandy Lauderdale
(9:00)

Botticelli’S Gypzee Heart

broken spoke Jesse Dayton
THE BROWN BAR DJ GmaU
cactus cafe Molly Ventor (8:30)

carousel lounge MonkeyWrench
Books Benefit w/ No Mas
Bodas, Night Viking, Wax
Museum Pandemonium, Attic
Ted (7:30)

CEDAR STREET Kent Mayhew,

LC Rocks (6:00)

CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH Sarah
Elizabeth Campbell & the
Banned (6:30)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

Brandon Rhyder (9:00)

continental club Charlie Hurtin
& the Hecklers, Bexar County
Bastards, Shandon Sahm, Honky
( 10 : 00 )

cool river cafe SuperFunk Fantasy
(9:00)

copa bar & grill Salsa Lessons
w/ Tony, the Brew (8:00)

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Ultra Wolf,

I Kill Cars

donn’S depot Murphy’s Inlaws

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Mark
Goodwin Trio (7:30)

ELEPHANT room Dillon Meek,

Paul Glasse Quintet (6:00)

elysium Fiesta Explosion, the Follow
Through, Neuroma (10:00)

EMO’S The Strip Cult
EVANGELINE cafe Liz Morphis (7:00)

flamingo cantina Paul Banks,
Jordan Mitchell, Automatic Cycle,
Magically Delicious Smoking
Skunk Monkey (9:00)

FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE

Matt the Electrician, Southpaw
Jones (8:00)

FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE Joe Gee

(6:30)

FREDDIE’S PLACE Graham Wilkinson
( 6 : 00 )

GARRISON PARK HARBOR Billy Young,
Tom Robinson

giddy ups Mike Morgan (5:30),

Open Mic w/ Dewey Lyon (8:30)

GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON

Robert Chevrier (9:00)

GRUENE HALL Ryan James (7:00)
Hanover’S Karaoke w/ Dan the Man

HEADHUNTERS Opia, Leghorn,
Daemoon Fly, Indofin

hill’s cafe Arielle Nicole

HOLE in THE wall Time Out, Brooks
Alan Brannon (8:00)

jovita’S The Cornell Hurd Band (8:00)
la palapa Jonas Alvarez

Lamberts Emily Gimble (7:00),
Homer Henderson (10:30)

LATITUDE 30 Jordan Tanner (9:00)

;y sp orts arts film MUS

THE LOADING dock Open Mic (7:00)

LUCKY LOUNGE Ian Me Lagan & the
Bump Band, A.J. Vallejo (6:00)

LUCY’S on the square The Raspas,
the Couch, Bombardment by
Aeroplane (9:00)

maria’s taco xpress Nathan
Hubble, Michael Clay (7:00)

MEAN-EYED cat Stillwater Pioneers
( 8 : 00 )

mohawk Adeline, Moonlight Towers

MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN Thomas
“Doc” Grauzer (6:00)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT &

brewery Jamie Thomas (6:30)

nutty brown cafe Carport
Cassanovas

the oaks Lindsey Eck, Campaign
to Save Rock & Roll, Crooked
Creek, the Love Band,
Soulphonics (7:00)

POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL

Jeff Strahan

RED EYED fly Turnahoo, Far Beyond
Pluto, Joe’s Rocket Shoppe, We
the Granada

red fez DJ Rapid Ric, Mike Maven
& the Good Life (8:30)

RENAISSANCE hotel Lobby Lounge:
Rich Demarco (6:00)

room 7io 33 Overdose, Phoenix
Jackson, Bloody Knuckles,

Your Kisses Cause Crashes

ruta maya Will Dunlap, Northpoint,
Steelbeam, Will Dunlap Band
( 8 : 00 )

saxon pub James Hand (6:00),
Carolyn Wonderland, Beth Lee,
Emory Quinn (8:00)

SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN

New Sensational Brownies, JWW
& the Prospectors, Dave Insley’s
Careless Smokers (8:00)

SHENANIGANS Karaoke w/ Billy D.

SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL

Porcelain

SPEAKEASY Tin Can Phone

stubb’S Annie Madden, the

Rustones, the Spring Standards

T.c.’S lounge Leeann Atherton’s
Blues (10:00)

TEXAS UNION BALLROOM

Saul Williams (8:00)

threadgill’S world hq Jeremy
Nail, Bob Schneider’s Bluegrass
Massacre (9:00)

TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL

Lucky Strikes (7:30)

THE TRIANGLE Andrea Rosch (7:00)

triple crown Ricky Stein, Crown
Dregs, El Flaco

trophy’s Two Hoots & a Holler

VICTORY GRILL Word/Jazz Low Stars
( 8 : 00 )

yard dog The Victor Mourning
(7:30)

Z’TEJAS Kat’s Meow (6:00)

FRI 03

ABIA: EARL CAMPBELL’S

sports bar Forest
Wayne Allen (3:30)

Amsterdam cafe Suede (9:00)

antone’S Burlesque the Vote
w/ MC Rudy Ramirez (8:00)

ARTZ RIB HOUSE George Ensle (7:30)

Austin city hall plaza Suzanna
Choffel (noon)

AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735

Masquerade

AUSTIN MUSIC HALL Terry Fator (8:00)

b.d. RILEY’S IRISH pub Jimi Lee

BEERLAND Love Taps, Hex
Dispensers, Ooga Boogas

THE BELMONT The Usual Suspects,

DJ Tomas

BOAT HOUSE grill Danny Austin
(6:00), Suit (6:00)

Botticelli’S Graham Wilkinson
’BOUT TIME DJ Element

c. hunts ice house Bo Porter
& His Dixie Rockits (7:00)

cactus cafe Jackopierce (9:00)

the canary roost Karaoke
w/ Nicole

carousel lounge Mad Cowboys
(7:00)

CENTRAL MARKET NORTH El Tule

(6:30)

central market south Cameron
Road (6:30)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

South Texas Destroyers (9:30)

CLEMENTINE COFFEE BAR Pounder
Unplugged, Low End Frequency
(9:00)

CLUB de VILLE Waxploitation! (9:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB The Blues

Specialists (6:30), Grand Hotel,
Calamity Cubes, White Ghost
Shivers (9:30)

cool river cafe SuperFunk Fantasy
(9:00)

cotton club Somewhere in Texas
(8:30)

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE We ll Go

Machete, Bankrupt & the
Borrowers, Watching the Moon,
Bridge Farmers

DETOUR BAR & grill Weldon Henson

donn’S depot Donn & the Station
Masters

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE

Abra Moore (8:00)

ELEPHANT room Sarah Temple,
Freddie Mendoza w/ Butch Miles
( 6 : 00 )

elysium Hipnautica

EMO’S Lounge: L’Austin Space
III; Inside: Pataphysics,

Daniel Francis Doyle, Yip Yip,
YellowFever

EVANGELINE cafe Larry Lange
& the Lonely Knights (10:00)

FLAMINGO CANTINA Eric Deaton,
Afrissippi (9:00)

FRANK ERWIN center Carlos Mencia
( 8 : 00 )

FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE Joe Gee

(6:30)

Freddie’s place Raised by Humans
( 6 : 00 )

GARRISON PARK HARBOR

George Rarey (9:00)
giddy ups Preacher Keen

GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON

Amber Digby & the Midnight
Flyers (9:00)

GRUENE HALL Roger Clyne & the
Peacemakers (8:30)]

HEADHUNTERS Pop Pistol,

Bukkaka Daydream,

Bloodshot Pyramid, Higher
Than Why, Muchos Backflips!

HILL’S CAFE Shad Blair

hole in the wall The Skeletons
CD Release, Corinne Rose,
the Nematoads (10:00)

jovita’S Girl Guitar, Los Bad Apples,
Haydn Vitera (5:30)

la palapa Karaoke w/ Big Jim
( 8 : 00 )

Lamberts The Story Of, Unfortunate
Heads (10:30)

LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING
ARTS ARRIVAL w/ Austin
Symphony Orchestra (8:00)

LOUIE’S 106 Kenny Luna (6:30)

LUCY’S on the square Hammer
( 10 : 00 )

maria’s taco xpress Leeann
Atherton (7:00)

mohawk Canopy, the Boxing Lesson,
Low Line Caller CD Release
( 10 : 00 )

Cheatham Street

WAREHOUSE

Austin's far-out music hall in San Marcos
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SOUTH TEXAS
DESTROYERS

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Golden Triangle, Quintron & Miss
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EVANGELINE cafe Sunset Valley Boys

FLAMINGO CANTINA Mystic Vibes,
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Joe Gee (6:30)

FREDDIE’S PLACE Catch a Dream
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GARRISON PARK HARBOR Mitch
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GRUENE HALL The Doc Marshalls
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HEADHUNTERS Supercrash,

Satantonio, New American Mob,
Year of the Kid, Kansas City
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HOLE in THE wall The Alice Rose,

Nic Armstrong, Wiretree (10:00)

jovita’S Girl Guitar, Sumner Erickson
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la palapa Karaoke w/ Big Jim
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LAMBERTS DJ Fuckin’ A (10:30)

LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING
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LOUIE’S 106 Kenny Luna (6:30)

LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE Devil's
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Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers
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Diagonals, Physics of Meaning,
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moonriver Lee Person

MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN

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POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL

Bo Porter (9:00)

red 7 Tito & Tarantula

red eyed fly Sedium, Stars Collide,
Driver F, Zlam Dunk, Mike Truth &
the Replacement Killers

RED FEZ DJ Kurv (10:00)

RENAISSANCE hotel Lobby Lounge:
Rich Demarco (6:00)

ROMEO’S Georgetown Kirk Hale
(6:30)

room 710 Kaos Radio Benefit
w/ You People, Nanosmash,
the Blood Royale

ROUGH HOLLOW YACHT CLUB & MARINA

Paula Nelson (5:00)

ruta maya Paul Green School of
Rock Music (3:00), Smokey
Smoke, T Solo, LC Mafia,
Southern Govna, Synical & Gee
Weezy, Turn Turn (9:00)

saxon pub LZ Love, Josh Smith,

Van Wilks, George Devore (8:00)

SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN Foot Foot,
Pocket FishRmen, El Flaco

SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL

Buzz Fuel

sonny’s vintage Lawrence Glass,
Sierra (5:00)

speakeasy The Space Rockers
(9:30)

stardust club Rip Lorick

stubb’S Outside: Graveyard, the
Sword, Clutch; Inside Later:
Dremnt the End

TEXAS BAR & grill Tin Can Phone

THREADGILL’S world HQ New Riders
of the Purple Sage (9:00)

TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL Mirage
Jazz Ensemble (7:30)

triple crown Doomsday Device,
Phranchyze, MC Eats, the Word
Association

TRIUMPH CAFE Brian MacLeod’s HiFi
(7:00)

trophy’s Shotgun Hustler,

PJ & the Bear, Backsliders

WOOLDRIDGE SQUARE PARK JaZZ

Pharoahs, Golden Hornet Project
(7:00)

zbt house Dell Children’s Medical
Center Benefit w/ Paul Wall (6:00)

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ANTONE’S Ricky Stein,

Swamp Sauce, Bruce
Smith (8:00)

ARTZ RIB HOUSE Texas Swing Kings
(6:30)

b.d. RILEY’S IRISH pub Irish Tunes
Session (8:00)

berryhill baja grill Gypzee Heart
(noon)

BOAT HOUSE grill La Tampiquena,
Shawn Nelson, Prison Folk Rock
( 6 : 00 )

’bout time Karaoke w/ AJ Kline (8:00)

THE CANARY roost Karaoke w/ Brian

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carousel lounge Kyle Hubbard (7:30)

CENTRAL MARKET NORTH Son Five
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CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH CienfuegOS
(noon)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

Texas Fx (4:00)

CONTINENTAL club Heybale! (10:00)

cotton club Can’t Hardly Playboyz
(7:00)

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE

Kris Kimura Quartet (7:00)

ELK’S lodge Fingerpistol CD Release
ELEPHANT room About: Blank (9:30)

elysium Regression: Retro Eighties
w/ DJ Pumpkin Spice

EMO’S The Great Nostalgic, Many
Birthdays, the Shondes, Prayer
for Animals

FREDDIE’S PLACE Six Sons of a Gun
( 6 : 00 )

friends Open Mic Blues Jam (8:00)

GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON

Redd Volkaert (4:00)

green pastures Jacques Vilmain
(11:00am)

GRUENE HALL Ruby Jane Smith
(12:30), Van Wilks (5:00)

HEADHUNTERS New American Mob,
Mallory Valentine, Horse Opera,
the Original Mexican Bob

HICKORY STREET BAR & GRILLE

Danny Fast Fingers (noon)

HOLE in THE wall Alexander’s Dark
Band, Joanna Barbera, Before
the Bombs (10:00)

jovita’S Smash Riley (6:00)
la zona rosa Henry Rollins (9:00)

Lamberts Ephraim Owens, Brannen
Temple, Red Young (7:00)

LATITUDE 30 Luke Jackson (9:00)

MANUELS David Webb & Tony
Campise (11:00am)

maria’s taco xpress Imperial Golden
Crown Harmonizers (12:30)

MEAN-EYED cat West Coast Pinups
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moonriver Open Mic w/ Jimmy Lee
(8:30)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT &

brewery Oma & the Oompahs;
the Tubameisters; Stephen Doster,
Will Sexton & Bill Carter (6:30)

nuevo leon Mariachi Relampago
( 1 : 00 )

nuno’S on sixth Rusty Trapps
& the Blue Lites (8:00)

nutty brown cafe Java Jazz
(11:00am)

the oasis The Brew

THE PARISH Robin Smith, Snafu
Kitties, LaVonne, Kari K. (7:30)

rack daddy’s Karaoke w/ Robert
Wagner (10:00)

RAIN on 4TH Hedda Layne (6:00)

RED FEZ DJ Kurupt (10:00)

RILEY’S TAVERN Open Mic
w/ Glenn Allen

roadhouse rags La Tampiquena,
Shawn Nelson, Prison Folk Rock
( 6 : 00 )

ROUGH HOLLOW YACHT CLUB & MARINA

A.J. Vallejo, Zach Baker (1:00)
RUTA MAYA Monster Big Band (7:00)

SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER Man

Carter, No Mas Bodas, Book of
Shadows, Kid’s Club (7:00)

saxon pub David Rubenstein, the
Resentments, Bobby Whitlock &
CoCo Carmel, the Salingers (6:00)

SHENANIGANS Karaoke w/ Billy D

stubb’S Brunch w/ the Bells of Joy
(11am); Jaguars (8:00)

things Celtic Celtic Song Session
(2:30)

TRIPLE CROWN Open Mic w/ Pat
Pankratz, Holly Aiken, Nate Hinds

THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Yam Jam,
Operation Turkey Benefit
w/ Porterdavis, Mingo Fishtrap,
Guy Forsyth, Carolyn Wonderland
(4:00)

Waterloo ice house 360 Sunday
Brunch w/ Buzz Guerra

WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREET

Brunch w/ the Jeff Lofton
Quartet (11:00am)

ABIA: HIGHLAND LAKES BAR

Cl eve & Sweet Mary
(3:30)

antone’S Flyjack (9:00)

artz rib house Sarah Elizabeth
Campbell & the Banned (7:30)

AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735

Plutonium Farmers (8:00)

b.d. RILEY’S IRISH pub Eric Heard
Showcase

beerland World-Famous Karaoke
Botticelli’S Johnny Molinari

’bout time Karaoke w/ AJ Kline
(9:00)

carousel lounge John Wesley
Coleman, Magically Delicious
Smoking Skunk Monkey (8:00)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

Cheatham Street All-Stars (9:30)
chez zee Rich Demarco (6:30)

continental club Marshall
Ford Swing Band (6:30), Doc
Marshalls, James Hand (9:30)

donn’S depot Chris Gage

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Kris
Kimura Quartet (7:00)

ELEPHANT room Three Jazz
Collective (6:00), Michael
Mordecai’s Jazz Jam (9:30)

emo’S Sacred Shock, the Roller,
Saviours

EVANGELINE cafe Charles
Thibodeaux (6:30)

FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE

T. Jarrod Bonta (8:00)

GRUENE HALL Bret Graham (7:00)
GUERO’S TACO bar Trio Indiano (6:30)

HOLE in THE wall L.A. Dies, Joy Bus
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la palapa Baby Dallas

latitude 30 Carson Alexander (9:00)

LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE Robbie’S
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MEAN-EYED cat Sam Baker (8:00)
moonriver Open Mic w/ Jimmy Lee

MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUB Charla
Corn, Curtis Grimes (10:00)

MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS

John Wilson & Joley Flowers

mugshots Open Mic w/ Acoustic
Odyssey (8:00)

ONE WORLD THEATRE The GueSS Who
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POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL

Ru Coleman & Texas Boogie
red fez Komson (10:00)

room 7io Heart & Soul Sound
System (8:00)

RUTA MAYA Metal Open Mic (6:30)

SAM’S town point Breck’s Stormy
Open Blues Jam (8:30)

saxon pub Jennifer Sullivan,

Bob Schneider, Douglas Jay Bird,
Alan Daniels (7:00)

SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL

Brent Wood

speakeasy Jonathan Terrell

THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Marvin
Dykhuis, Floyd Domino, Joe
Manuel, Lee Duffy (7:30)

TRIPLE CROWN Jo Beth Henderson,
Doomsday Device (6:00)

WATERLOO RECORDS

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street Julieann Banks (1:00)

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city limits Craig Toungate (1:00)

AMSTERDAM cafe Kim Deschamps

antone’S Blue Tuesday
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Malford Milligan (9:30)

artz rib house Texas Old Time
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B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB

Suzanne Smith

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The Kitchen Pickers (6:30)

beerland Safety in Numbers
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Botticelli’S Joe Faulhaber

’BOUT TIME Karaoke w/ AJ Kline
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cactus cafe Bill Bourne,
Madagascar Slim (8:30)

carousel lounge The Coffee
Sergeants (7:00)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

Jordan Minor & the Bottom
Dollar Band (9:00)

CLEMENTINE COFFEE BAR

Joshua Cisco, Matthew Pop

continental club Planet Casper
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DONN’S DEPOT Donn &
the Station Masters

EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE

Mark Goodwin Trio (7:00)

elephant room Stanley Smith
w/ Jon Doyle (6:00), John Mills
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elysium ‘90s Night w/ DJ Boba
Fett, DJ Minimus

EMO’S Puff Puff, Snake Trap,

Red X Red M, TsuShiMaMiRe

EVANGELINE cafe Brennen Leigh
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Greg Anderson (8:00)

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Erik Flokkanen’s Laboratory
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garrison park harbor Freddie
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GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON

Jim Stringer (9:00)

GRUENE HALL Rodney Hayden (7:00)

guero’S taco bar Trio Indiano
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Hanover’S Kevin Havron & Steven
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headhunters Bill Davis’ Songwriter
Showcase, Felix, Boxcar
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hill’s cafe Singer-Songwriter Night
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hole in the wall The Bread,

Roger Wallace (9:00)

HOT MAMA’S ESPRESSO BAR Open
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house wine Jay Sims (7:00)

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Gypzee Heart (6:30)
jovita’S Girl Guitar (6:30)
la palapa Baby Dallas

lucky lounge DJ Rapid Ric,
Boombox w/ Carlos Sosa
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LUCY’S on the square Fite (9:00)

mohawk Balmorhea,

Pattern Is Movement (10:00)

POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL

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red fez Twist Up w/ DJ Manny
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ROOM 710 HAAM Benefit w/

Adrian & the Sickness,

Tia Carrera, Dixie Witch

RUTA MAYA Poetry Open Mic,

Music Open Mic (6:00)

SAM’S town point Open Mic
w/ Nate Vancil (9:00)

saxon pub Robbie & the Rogues
(5:00), Chris Gates, Jarrod
Schaub, Uncle Lucius (8:00)

shenanigans Karaoke w/ Rae Rae

SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL

Five Ways From Sunday

THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ

HAAM Benefit w/ Bob Livingston,
Paul Pearcy, Barbara K,

Greezy Wheels, Albert & Gage,
Carolyn Wonderland (7:00)

triple crown Robbie Doyen,

Scotty & the Metaphysics

trophy’s Singer-Songwriter
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WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREET

Will Dunlap (7:00)

WATERLOO RECORDS HAAM Benefit
Day w/ the Derailers, Asylum
Street Spankers (5:00)

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ABIA: EARL CAMPBELL’S

sports bar Brian Meyerdirk
(3:30)

ABIA: HIGHLAND LAKES BAR

Dimestore Poets (3:30)

ABIA: LEFTY’S BAR & GRILLE ON SIXTH

street John Burgess (1:00)

AMSTERDAM cafe Austin Songwriters
Group Open Mic

antone’S Black Bone Child,

Eric Tessmer (9:00)

ARTZ RIB HOUSE Shelley King (7:30)

AUSTIN’S PIZZA Natalie Zoe Jazz Trio
( 8 : 00 )

B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Hosea
Hargrove, Joe Gee (noon)

beerland Followed by Static
THE BELMONT The Motts (7:00)

berryhill baja grill Gypzee Heart
(6:30)

Botticelli’S PJ. Herrington

cactus cafe Todd Snider
CD Release (8:30)

CAROUSEL LOUNGE The Follow
Through, Banner Year, Quarter

CEDAR STREET Trent & Dave,
the Spazmatics (6:00)

CENTRAL MARKET south Jane Bond
(6:30)

CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE

Kent Finlay’s Songwriters Circle
(9:00)

chez zee Jacinta (7:00)

the cockpit Club Inclusive
w/ Julie Nolan (9:00)

CONTINENTAL CLUB Hot Club Of
Cowtown (6:30); Jon Dee
Graham, James McMurtry
(10:30)

CREEKSIDE lounge Style Free
w/ Azatat, DJ Orion

CUBA LIBRE Havana Nights
w/ the Cadaques (8:00)

donn’S depot Frank & the Station
Masters

elephant room Jazz Pharoahs
(6:00), Baker’s Dozen (9:30)

EMO’S Inside: Firehorse,
Blackholicus, Bible of the
Devil; Lounge: Sad Accordions,
Haunting Oboe Music, Rahim

EVANGELINE cafe Danny Britt (7:00)

FLAMINGO CANTINA Dub Monster
Sound Squad, Dr. Dubbist,

Don Chani (9:00)

FRANK ERWIN CENTER

The Cheetah Girls (7:00)

GARRISON PARK HARBOR Jason

Gautreaux, Julieann Banks (7:00)

giddy ups Open Blues Jam w/ Nick
THE GINGER man The Banters (8:00)

GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON

Roger Wallace (9:00)

GRUENE HALL Zack Walther &
the Cronkites (7:00)

HANOVER’S Drew Womack,

Steven Franks

headhunters Kids & Chemicals, Lux
Divon, Wicked Pro Wrestler

hill’s cafe Kevin Fowler, Doug
Moreland

HOLE IN THE WALL JWW &

the Prospectors, Chadd Thomas
& the Crazy Kings, Darren Hoff
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jovita’S Girl Guitar, Greg Waring
(6:30)

Lamberts Moonhangers (7:00),

DJ Mel (10:30)

las palomas Javier Chaparro,

Rick McRae, Terry Hale, Art Kidd
(6:30)

little Mexico restaurant Karaoke
w/ DJ Rich Caz

LOUIE’S 106 Red Young (6:30)

LUCKY LOUNGE Lucky Jam Sessions
w/ Tyler & Lance (10:00)

LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE

Electric Mayhem (9:00)

MAGGIE MAE’S Patrick Fleming
( 10 : 00 )

MEAN-EYED cat Deuce Coupe (8:00)

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Less than 1/2 mi. from St.
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CENTRAL Cottage style home
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204-A E. 38th St. 1/1 dplxwith
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rent & deposit 477-1163 agent
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CENTRAL 1940’s vintage du-
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472-2123. $1 225/mo.

CENTRAL 4204 A Clawson
Rd, large 2bd/1 bth house
with quick access to Ben
White and close to South 1 st
and Manchaca Rd, $995/mo,
large front and back yard, off
street parking, freshly paint-
ed. Call Brad 474-1551 at
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CENTRAL ROSEDALE! Retro
2-1 1/2, quiet 4-plex. 900+ sf,
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No smoking. $875. 657-5663.

CENTRAL 1 51 5 A Woodlawn
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to Mopac, quaint ‘50s style!
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brad@beckandco.com

NORTH 1512 Big Thicket,
Cedar Park, Brand new home,
$1 250/mo, Rita Snyder, Home-
stead Realty, 468-2867

NORTH 1832 Nelson Ranch
Rd, Cedar Park, Executive style
home, $1 675/mo, Rita Snyder,
Homestead Realty, 468-2867

NORTH CENTRAL $1295/
mo 4/2 House, Ig shed, CACH,
carport, covered patio, small
pets OK. (512)971-3493.

NORTH CENTRAL 61 0 A Kaw-
nee 2-1 CACH, fenced yard, W/D
hookups. Available Now. Rent/
Deposit $850. www.cbimanage-
ment.com 658-9493

NORTH CENTRAL 1914
“C” Cullen 2-1 upstairs, no
yard. Available now. Rent/
Deposit $750. cbimanagement.
com 658-9493

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COMMERCIAL

SOCO Retail Storefront 3600
sqft, Your business can profit
in this New Up & Coming
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SOCO Warehouse/ Creative
Office Space $1/ft.& up, 200-
1600 sqft, No Live-In 443-
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SOUTH WORK AND LIVE IN
78704! Pre leasing NOW for
mixed use project at S.lst and
Live Oak with four 960sf commer-
cial spaces with bathroom, wet
barfacing S.lst and four 1
bedroom 976sf apartment lofts.
Construction to begin in October
and should take 6-8 months. Rent
is 2250mo plus triple net on com-
mercial and 1500moforthe lofts.
Contact Dan 796 9212

GORGEOUS

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j built in 2004

| granite throughout
i incredible master
• huge oaks

j fully landscaped
• large storage area
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Best Value in 78704

PREARRANGED FINANCING THROUGH MISSION MORTGAGE. HURRY
WHILE RATES ARE STILL AT AN ALL TIME LOW.

MONTHLY PAYMENT: $1,358

$299,900

Property address: 1610 Southgate Circle
www.1610southgatecircle.com
512.587.1014 & garrett@gsmrealestate.com

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It features 1 bedroom, 1 bath, separate loft, stainless appliances,
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567-3635.

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ALTERNATIVE

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DEEP SWEDISH

Gay Friendly N. Austin mas-
sage. Trained in Austin 6 yrs
exp. Quiet, private studio.
Shower available.
www.HealToSoul.com Call
Bruce 673-8072 or email
Bruce@healtosoul.com.
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DEEP SWEDISH SPORT

With over 12 years experi-
ence,! know how to take care
of you. Call today to sched-
ule an amazing massage
from Joel (210) 400-6608.

Day evening and weekend
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ing, Intuitive Healing. Kaya
Bohdana, For Appts Call
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GENERAL* PAMPER
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Touch Massage. Specializing
in Total Relaxation. Call Kim
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GENERAL A journey beyond
sensations... by Mary Ellen.
The ultimate experience in
relaxation! Full Body Mas-
sage, Herbal Baths, Warm
Oils, Hot Tub Massage, MC/
VISA (RMT#9644) 927-8366.

GENERAL NOW OPEN. Re-
lax - Relieve - Enjoy. Swedish
Massage, Deep & Soft Tis-
sue, Full Body Massage, hot
stone treatment. Bee Cave
Rd, quiet office. LMT#39907.
Call 698-1 61 5 or 905-7668

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Licensed Male Massage Therapist

& Licensed Male Esthetician
Swedish & Deep Tissue
Massage, Facials, Waxing,
Sugaring & Body Treatments
In/Outcall Services
10am-10pm, 7 Days a Week
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9am-Midnight

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Now - South Austin Location

Out-calls noon to late night. In-calls Thurs. to Mon. Relieve
stress, headache, baclc, neclc pain, sore muscles, or just relax &
enjoy. Mage Palms Therapeutic Massage. Incalls/Outcalls $73
for 7$ minutes. Call 312-251-^27+. LMT #+3355.
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GENERAL SOOTHING
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Relaxation, Amazing Touch,
Full Body Massage,
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Jollyvi lie Road LMT 042276

GENERAL A Great Massage
for Men by Bob. North loca-
tion (LMT#013795) Call 9am-
10pm, 7 days/week. (512)
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appointments, IN/OUT calls,
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GENERAL

GIFT YOURSELF

To a luxurious deep-tissue
Swedish massage from a
very empathetic therapist.
Located East Central/Univer-
sity area. Kasey Smith,
LMT#17406.

457-8496

GENERAL Treat yourself to a
relaxing hot oil, full-body
Swedish massage in a can-
dle-lit, private room/
shower, 24/7, in/out calls.
Clint 775-9164 -LMT# 34842

GENERAL My touch, your
choice. Full body massage
(Deep Tissue or Relaxing)
Jose (LMT012529) In/Out-
calls. Call 773-3457.

GENERAL MAGIC PALMS
Alternative & Swedish
Massage. Deep tissue, re-
laxation. Relieve pain &
stress. 10% Off Outcalls for
two. 281-6274 LMT #45388

GENERAL NURTURING
TOUCH, “Sense-sational” Per-
sonalized Full Body Relaxa-
tion for the mature, discern-
ing gentleman. Central. Linda
(LMT4330) 445-5452.

GENERAL I put my hands on
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Available 7 days/nights.

(512) 470-6525 (LMT013588).

GENERAL Pamper Yourself.
In/Outcalls, 24/7, Private Stu-
dio, Shower. FULL BODY
MASSAGE by James. Call
554-2248 (LMT017905)

LICENSED MASSAGE Ther-
aputic relief. Inut calls.

9am to 7pm daily. Call Eva
512-282-4426. Imt# 3830

PRESSURE POINT

PRESSURE POINT
MASSAGE &
FACIALS

Specializing in Chinese
Pressure Point Massage and
Deep Pore Facial.
Southwest Austin
Pao-Chuan (Bonnie Yu),
LMT #23296, 656-2054

RELAXATION Massage by
young college student. Call
Greg for soothing massage.
In/Out calls. LMT# 22435.
Cellular, 512-496-3527.

RELAXATION Therapist
trained in pampering Austin.
183 & 1-35. M-Th daytime.

Call Gisela 1-325-423-2754.
LMT#19847

BODY AND SOUL You’re
feeling very sleepy ... eyelids
are becoming heavy ... when I
snap my fingers you will read
The Austin Chronicle's Body &
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RELAXATION

Private setting in S. Austin.

Full body massage with
warm oil by masculine guy
with strong, sensitive hands.

Don, LMT #28735
585-9450

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RELAXATION The Right
Touch. Chinese, Swedish
style. Sensitive. Call Jade Liu
804-0794 - LMT#36404

RELAXATION Fabulous
massages. Full body
relaxation, body scrubs, hot
stones, warm oil. Outcalls,
9am-12am. 569-7001.
LMT#045207

RELAXATION Full Body
Massage for the discriminating
man; soothing techniques to
remedy your needs; wkdays, 6-9
PM, Wkends/Holidays, 10A-9P;
Don, 970-1131, ZilkerPk.
area. LMT#032673

RELAXATION Massage for
men by talented male mas-
seur. Michael Alan
(LMT021 801) 636-4200.

SUPPLIES

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Massage & Aromatherapy
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GREAT SELECTION!
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(512)476-1727

SWEDISH “Forget the rest...
try the best.” Incall. Massage
byJoy. (LMT1 151) Call (512)
803-3690.

SWEDISH massage offered in
s. austin friday thru monday.
788-1935 lmt#106447

SWEDISH Massage Therapy
Swedish, Hot Stone, Reiki.
9am - midnight. 636-3661.
LMT #40870.

PSYCHIC READINGS Tarot
or channeled writing; Austin
unique. This is it. Donations
only. Phone (512) 569-4767.

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MISCELLANEOUS

SALON

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2100 W.Wm. Cannon #2
(Four Seasons) Full service
salon & digital makeovers.
Vania Castro (master colorist)
Free haircut on color service
w/thisad. 512-653-1394 Se
habla espanol!

CHAKRA WORKSHOP

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tions from Buddhist, Hindu,
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ditions, enriched and packaged
by Enlightened Master Para-
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Intro by Swami Medhananda:
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DANCE

Thursday Night Swing Dance

2312 San Gabriel St.

8:00pm-midnight

$5 admission

Free intro class at 8:15

Come dance at one of the
nation’s friendliest swing
dance communities!

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ORCHID PLANT AUCTION

October 7th, Zilker Botanical
Gardens Center; 7:15pm -
9:30pm, Philip Zbylot 445-4300

REALESTATE COMMUNITY

Meet and network with real es-
tate investors that are willing to
share strategies and teach even
the inexperienced how to invest
in real estate the right way.
Learn from experienced million-
aires. Call Diane 5127492476 for
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Oct. 16th in Austin

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LOST & FOUND

LOST DOG 8/19 Black female
Chow/Border Collie mix. NE
Austin area. If found, 699-5248

LEGAL NOTICES

CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSON

TO ALL PERSONS
INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE
OF SHIRLEY FOY RIDDELL,
Cause No. 08-0493-CP4, in
County Court at Law #4 of
Williamson County, 405
Martin Luther King Street,
Georgetown, Texas 78626.
STEPHEN RIDDELL,

Applicant in the above
numbered and entitled
estate, filed on the 26th day
of September, 2008, an
APPLICATION TO
DETERMINE HEIRSHIP AND
FOR ISSUANCE OF LETTERS
OF INDEPENDENT
ADMINISTRATION of the said
estate and requests that the
said Court determine who are
the heirs and only heirs of
the said SHIRLEY FOY
RIDDELL, DECEASED, and
their respective shares and
interests in such estate.

Said application may be
heard at 10:00 o’clock a.m.
on the first Monday next after
the expiration of ten days
from the date of publication
of this citation, at the County
Courthouse Annex in
Georgetown, Williamson
County, Texas.

All persons interested in said
estate are hereby cited to
appear before said
Honorable Court at said
above mentioned time and
place by filing a written
answer contesting such
application should they
desire to do so.

If this citation is not served
within 90 days after date of
its issuance, it shall be
returned unserved.

Given under my hand and
the seal of office at
Georgetown, Texas, this the
26th day of September, 2008.
Nancy E. Rister
Williamson County Clerk
405 MLK Street, Box 14
Georgetown, TX 78626
By: /s/ Dianne M. Flores,

Deputy

CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
CAUSE NO: D-1-FM-08-
004901 To: UNKNOWN FA-
THER OF ASHIYAH V
YOUNG and to all who it may
concern, Respondent(s);
GREETINGS: YOU HAVE
BEEN SUED. You may em-
ploy an attorney. If you or
your attorney do not file a
written answer with the clerk
who issued this citation by
10:00 A.M. on the Monday
next following the expiration
of twenty days after you were
served this citation and peti-
tion, a default judgment may
be taken against you.

YOU ARE HEREBY COM-
MANDED to appear and an-
swer before the Honorable
District Court, 53RD JUDI-
CIAL DISTRICT COURT, Tra-
vis County, Texas, at the
Courthouse of said County in
Austin, Texas, at or before 10
o’clock A.M. of the Monday
next after expiration of twenty
days from the date of service
of this citation, then and
there to answer the ORIGI-
NAL PETITION IN SUIT AF-
FECTING THE PARENT-
CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND
TRAVIS COUNTY STANDING
ORDER of BERNICE PINCH-
BACK Petitioner(s), filed in
said court on SEPTEMBER
24, 2008, against UNKNOWN
FATHER OF ASHIYAH V.
YOUNG Respondent(s), and
said suit being number D-1-
FM-08-004901 the docket of
said Court, and entitled “IN
THE INTEREST OF ASHIYAH
V. YOUNG, A CHILD", the na-
ture of said suit is a request
ORIGINAL PETITION IN SUIT
AFFECTING THE PARENT-
CHILD RELATIONSHIP
The Court has authority in
this suit to enter any judg-
ment or decree in the
CHILD'S interest which will
be binding on you, including
the termination of the parent-
child relationship, the deter-
mination of paternity, and the
appointment of a conservator
with authority to consent to
the CHILD’S adoption.

Issued and given under my
hand and the seal of said
court at Austin, Texas, Sep-
tember 24, 2008.

AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-
MENDOZA

Travis County District Clerk
Travis County Courthouse
1000 Guadalupe,

RO. Box 679003 (78767)

Austin, Texas 78701

By/s/ DANIELLE LITTLETON,

Deputy

REQUESTED BY:

BERNICE PINCHBACK
1711 HILLCREST LN
AUSTIN, TX 78721

Karibu Ethiopian
Restaurant, Inc,
Solomon Kassa,
President, DBA Ka-
ribu Ethiopian Res-
taurant and Bar is
Making Application
with the Texas Al-
coholic Beverage
Commission for a
Mixed Beverage
Permit On the Ad-
dress of 1209 East
7th Street, Austin,
Travis County, Tex-
as.

NORTH CAROLINA
HARNETT COUNTY
IN THE GENERAL COURT
OF JUSTICE
DISTRICT COURT DIVI-
SION

08-CvD-1202

JORGE VARGAS LOPEZ,

Plaintiff

Vs.

IDALIA RODRIGUEZ,

Defendant

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS BY PUBLICA-
TION

TAKE NOTICE that a Com-
plaint for an Absolute Divorce
has been filed in the above-
referenced action.

You are required to make de-
fense to such pleading no
later than forty (40) days from
October 10, 2008 and upon
your failure to do so, the par-
ty seeking relief against you
will apply to the court for
sought.

This the 16th day of Septem-
ber, 2008.

/s/ Charlene Edwards
Attorney for the Plaintiff
RO. Box 2446
Lillington, NC 27546
Telephone: (910) 893-1128

NOTICE OF ABANDONED
VEHICLES Pursuant to Texas
Abandoned Motor Vehicle
Act, the following vehicle(s)
have been impounded and
are being stored at the fol-
lowing location for claiming.

1. Pop up travel trailer, Lie#
486-019, Illinois, noVIN#
Aviles & Gabe Wrecker &
Transport Service Inc
231 1 W. Howard Lane
Austin, TX 78728

NOTICE OF CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the ESTATE OF MARY
ANN JOHNSON, Deceased,
were issued on August
28,2008, in Cause No 89099,
pending in the Probate Court,
TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, to :
Kathleen Dial. All persons
having claims against this
Estate which is currently be-
ing administered are required
to present them within the
time and in the manner pre-
scribed by law to :Kathleen
Dial c/o Teresa Shapiro, 4408
Spicewood Springs Rd., Aus-
tin, Texas 78759. Dated the
1st day of October, 2008. /s/
Teresa Shahan Shapiro. At-
torney for Kathleen Dial, SBN
24027848, 4408 Spicewood
Springs Rd., Austin, TX
78759. Telephone: (512) 828-
6723.

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE

In accordance with the pro-
visions of Chapter 59 of the
Texas Property Code, there
being due and unpaid charg-
es for which the undersigned
is entitled to satisfy an own-
er’s lien of the goods herein-
after described and stored at
the Uncle Bob’s Self Storage
locations listed below; And,
due notice having been giv-
en, to the owner of said prop-
erty and all parties known to
claim an interest therein, and
the time specified in such no-
tice for payment of such hav-
ing expired, the goods will be
sold at public auction at the
following addresses to the
highest bidder or otherwise
disposed of on the following
dates. No one under 16 al-
lowed. Cash Only.

Uncle Bob’s #285
9717 US HWY290 E
Austin, TX 78724
512-278-1220

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@9:00 AM

633 Robin Thomas: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
TV's or stereo equip
813 Mark Nitkin: household
goods, furniture, boxes,
sporting goods, tools

841 Adwana DeVine: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes
6607 Miriam Castillo: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
sporting goods, TV's or ster-
eo equip

6625 Erin Booker: furniture,
boxes, appliances

Uncle Bob’s #231
8227 North Lamar
Austin, TX 78753
(512) 833-0855
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@10:00 AM

809 Jamie Loera: household
goods, furn.

752 LaTina Mays: household
goods, boxes, sporting
goods

745 Rose Brown: household
goods, furn., box
9952 John A. Passarell: box-
es, household goods, furn.,
tools

1003 Terry Spears: house-
hold goods, appliances, tv or
stereo equip., furniture
1033 Kenya Scott: other,
clothing

967 Phillip S. Maynard - Col-
lins, household goods
959Deborah Galvan: house-
hold goods, furn., boxes
930 Dwaine Glaze: house-
hold goods

813 Richard Tucker: house-
hold goods, furn.

1031 Leslie Rodriguez:
household goods, boxes,
furn., sporting goods, tools,
appl., tv or stereo equip., of-
fice equip.

729 Robert Cameron: house-
hold goods, boxes, tv or ster-
eo equip.

Uncle Bob’s #276
2830 South A.W. Grimes
Blvd

Round Rock, TX 78664
(512)310-0279
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@11:00 AM

2103 Linda Balderas: house-
hold goods, boxes
2105 Evelyn Chavez: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
appliances, TV’s or stereo
equip., office machines, con-
struction equip.

2230 Terrance Carter: house-
hold goods, boxes, sporting
goods

2309 Stephen Aden: house-
hold goods

2409 James Weems: furni-
ture, boxes, TV’s or stereo
equip., office equip.

3126 Greater Austin Moving:
household goods
3301 Ralph Cuellar: house-
hold goods, boxes, sporting
goods, tools, office equip.,
landscaping equip., account
records

4126 Tammy S. Cook: furni-
ture, boxes, TV’s or stereo
equip.

4327 Mark Sanders: tools,
construction equip.

4404 Keisha Brooks: house-
hold goods, furniture, TV's or
stereo equip., account
records

5110 Cristina Samaniego:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, TV's or stereo equip.

5111 Robert Cleaver: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
sporting goods, tools, appli-
ances, TV’s or stereo equip.,
office equip.

5211 Mekeisha Martin:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, appliances, TV’s or
stereo equip.

5223 Eric Cooper: household
goods, furniture, boxes
5320 Melinda Campos: furni-
ture, boxes, tools, landscap-
ing equip., rims, tires
5323 Raquel Stovall: furni-
ture, boxes, TV’s or stereo
equip.

6216 Renee Rousey: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
sporting goods, tools, TV’s or

AV1016 POUND SALE

NOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IMPOUNDED
BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATION
CODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF
ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.
THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MOTOR
VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS
OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER
THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A
CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.

I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE
HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN,
TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED
BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT;

OCTOBER 16,2008 @10:00
AM @ AUSTIN POLICE
DEPT., 4308 TERRY-0 LANE,
AUSTIN, TX 78745

082630590

085048390

085049194

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085049775

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stereo equip., office equip.,
office machines, construction
equip., landscaping equip.,
account records
6219 Eric Earley: household
goods, furniture, boxes, ap-
pliances

6223 Jason Scott: household
goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s
or stereo equip., office equip.
7118 Benjamin Mafias, Jr.:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, appliances
7223 Edward Martinez:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, appliances
7405 Keith Wicks: household
goods, furniture, boxes, ap-
pliances, TV’s or stereo
equip., account records
9326 Allen Williams: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes
9501 Nichole Millet: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
appliances, TV’s or stereo
equip., office equip., office
machines
Uncle Bob’s #197
5547 McNeil Dr.

Austin, TX 78729
(512)336-8390
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@ 12 noon

203 Korey White: furn., ap-
pliances

307 Jennifer Durham: hshld.
goods, furn., boxes, TV’s or
stereo equip.

317 Randy Spillers: hshld.
goods, furn., boxes, tools,
TV’s or stereo equip.

1022 Billy Kovacevich: hshld.
goods

1118 Judy Zapp: furniture
1312 Judy Zapp: hshld
goods, furn., boxes, sporting
goods, tools, TV’s or stereo
equip., office equip.

1318 Nicole Murchison-
Southard: hshld. goods, furn.,
boxes, sporting goods, ap-
pliances, TV’s or stereo
equip., account records
Uncle Bob’s #198
10307 FM 2222
Austin, TX 78730
(512)372-9046
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@1:00 PM

520 Sharon Emery: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
TV’s or stereo equip.

Uncle Bob’s #287
6509 South First Street
Austin, TX 78746
(512)326-9696
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
@1:30 PM

by Luke Ellis

The material in this column is for informational
purposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it a substitute
for, legal advice. For advice on your specific facts and
circumstances, consult a licensed attorney.

TRYING TO AVOID JURY DUTY?

I recently got a notice to report for jury duty. My
work and home life are really busy and stressful.
Spending several days on a jury is the last thing I need
right now. Is there a way to get out of jury duty?

Not under the circumstances you’ve described.
The Texas Government Code addresses jury duty,
including the general qualifications needed for jury
service as well as reasons that will allow a potential
juror to be exempted from jury service.

The first step in jury service is to determine
whether you qualify to serve. According to the Texas
Government Code, you cannot serve as a juror
unless you are at least 18 years old, a citizen of Texas
and the county where you’ll serve as juror, and qual-
ified to vote in the county. The law also requires that
you be of “sound mind and good moral character,”
be able to read and write, have not been convicted
of a felony, and are not under indictment or legal
accusation of theft or any felony.

Assuming you qualify as a juror, the next step
is to determine whether any legal exemptions
apply that would exempt you from service. The
list of exemptions is fairly extensive. Examples of
commonly used exemptions include being over 70
years of age, having child care responsibilities for
a child younger than 10 years old, being a high
school or college student, being on active military
duty, or having had previous jury service within the
last two years.

Judges also have the discretion to hear any rea-
sonable sworn excuse of a prospective juror and to
release that person from jury service entirely. But
before you start thinking about your best excuse
for getting out of jury duty, you should know that
judges do not like to release potential jurors from
jury duty and often only do so very sparingly.

Put simply, if you want out of jury service
because you are busy, it is highly unlikely that a
judge will exercise his or her discretion by releasing
you for that reason. Read next week’s column for
nuts-and-bolts information about jury service.

Please submit column suggestions, questions, and com-
ments to thecommonlaw@austinchronicle.com. Submission
of potential topics does not create an attorney-client
relationship, and any information submitted is subject to being
included in future columns.

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car talk

by Tom and Hay Magliozzi

NO NEED TO GET A
MINIVAN - CONVERTIBLE
IS SAFE IN LIGHTNING

Dear Tom and Ray :

I love my 2000 VW Cabrio. It feels solid on
the road, and the functioning roll bar completes
the safe feeling (no, I haven’t had to use it).
But I’m wondering about how safe it is when
there’s lightning all around. I’ve heard that a
car is safe in a thunderstorm not because of the
rubber tires but because it’s completely encased.
So, does that make a convertible with a cloth top
vulnerable? Am I risking my children’s lives?
Do I need to get something with just a sunroof
for safety and peace of mind? Do I need to suc-
cumb to my husband’s insistence that I get an
(ack!) minivan? - Margaret

TOM: Tell your husband to go jump
in a lake, Margaret. Just not during a
lightning storm.

RAY: You don’t need a minivan. Your
Cabrio is fine in a thunderstorm. From the
little we understand about lightning, when
it hits a car, it stays on the exterior metal
surface and goes to the ground through the
tires.

TOM: We’ve heard of all four tires explod-
ing. And we’ve heard of electrical systems
being fried after a bad lightning strike. But
we’ve never heard of injuries to people
inside the car.

RAY: Airplanes presumably get hit by
lightning far more often than cars do, and
people inside them are safe for the same
reason. The electricity stays on the outside
of the fuselage, even though the guy in 9B
might wish that enough of it had leaked
in to blow up the seat in front of him and
give him some more leg room on the way
to Newark.

TOM: But what about your canvas top?
Well, it has metal supports throughout it,
doesn’t it? Plus, you have the metal roll bar.
And that roll bar is attached to the metal
frame of the car. So I don’t think you have
anything to worry about, Margaret.

RAY: But just to be safe, always put the
top down in a rainstorm so the roll bar stays
completely exposed.

What is the most cost-effective way to buy a
car? Tom and Ray hash it all out in their pamphlet
“Should I Buy, Lease, or Steal My Next Car?” Send
$4.75 (check or money order) to Next Car, PO Box
536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

Got a question about cars? Write to Click and
Clack in care of this newspaper, or e-mail them by
visiting the Car Talk website, www.cartalk.com.

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138 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE OCTOBER 3,

120 Ann Van Eyk: household
goods, furniture, boxes, sport-
ing goods, tools, appliances,
TV's or stereo equip, landscap-
ing equip, account records
320 Elizabeth Nance: household
goods, boxes, TVs or stereo equip
278 Matt Harbers: household
goods, boxes

360 Paul Gonzalez: furniture,
tools, TV’s or stereo equip,
landscaping equip
2230 De La Cruz Solita:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, TV’s or stereo equip
2333 Rachel Ortiz: household
goods

3118 Lou Ellen Duran: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
sporting goods, tools, TV’s or
stereo equip

3122 Roldan Aguilar: house-
hold goods, boxes, sporting
goods

2329 Jacquelyn Camille La-
foy: household goods, furni-
ture, boxes

2411 Clark Artie Renee:
household goods, furniture,
boxes

3242 Lopez Lisa: household
goods, boxes, account
records

3248 Penberthy Sherrie:
household goods, furniture,
boxes, appliances, TV’s or
stereo equip, antiques
3405 Deirdre Leban: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
appliances, TV’s or stereo
equip

3417 Sandra Rosales: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
TV’s or stereo equip
3421 Al-Khaldi Lina: house-
hold goods, furniture, boxes,
appliances, TV’s or stereo
equip, account records
3502 Rosa Castelan: house-
hold goods

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Pursuant to Chapter 59 of the
Texas Property Code, Stor-A-
Way located at 309 South
Bell, Cedar Park, Texas
78613, will hold a public auc-
tion of property being sold to
satisfy a landlord’s lien.

The sale will begin at 10:00
am on October 16, 2008.
Property will be sold to the
highest bidder for cash. De-
posit for removal and clean-
up may be temporarily re-
quired. Seller reserves the
right to not accept any bid
and to withdraw property
from the sale. Property in
each space may be sold
item-by-item, in batches, or
by the space. Property being
sold includes contents in the
spaces of the following ten-
ants, with brief description of
contents in each space.

P052 Crosby Brown - 1985
Dodge Van

P058 Austin Stanphill - 1966
Ford

P060 Austin Stanphill - 1966
Ford

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Pursuant to Chapter 59, Tex-
as Property Code, Storage
Depot, located at 5810 North
Mopac, Austin, TX 78731 will
hold a public auction at the
foregoing address, at 10:00
o’clock a.m. on October 13,
2008 to satisfy a Landlord’s
Lien on the following tenant:
Leslie Irene Strickland. Prop-
erty consists of tables, day
bed, chairs, clothing, and
misc. items.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
ACCESS SELF STORAGE

located at 4243 and 4341
South Congress Avenue,
Austin, Travis County, Texas
wishing to avail themselves
of the provisions of and pur-
suant to Chapter 59, Texas
Property Code, will hold a
public auction of the property
being sold to satisfy a land-
lord’s lien. Sale to be at
10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 14th, at 4341 South
Congress Avenue, Austin,
Texas 78745. Property will be
sold to the highest bidder for
cash. Clean up and removal

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deposit may be required.
Seller reserves the right to
withdraw property from sale.
Property being sold includes
complete contents in spaces
of the following tenants: Mi-
chael H. Parnell, Art Apoda-
ca, Dave Morris, Ceasar
Rivera, Laurel Winslett, David
Trent, David L. Martinez, Ne-
keydra Bryant, Shawn Gay-
tan, Samantha Sanchez, Cris
Del Toro, Wash Harrison.
Items include: televisions, fu-
ton wooden bed, stereo com-
ponents, tools, desk, men’s
and women’s clothes,
clothes, electronic equip-
ment, washing machines,
dryers, assorted kitchen ap-
pliances, vacuum cleaner,
french doors, upholstered
chairs, sofas, baby crib, sta-
tionary bike, dressers, camp-
er top for truck, dvd players,
stationary bike, and assorted
household goods

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF ROBERTA
FORBES, DECEASED No-
tice is hereby given that Orig-
inal Letters Testamentary for
the Estate of Roberta Forbes,
Deceased, were issued on
September 25, 2008, in
Cause No. 89,210, pending
in the Probate Court No. 1 of
Travis County, Texas, to Al-
len McCleskey.

The residence of said Inde-
pendent Executor is in Gra-
ham, Young County, Texas,
and the address for notice is
as follows:

Estate of Roberta Forbes, De-
ceased

c/o Allen McCleskey, Ind. Ex-
ecutor
924 4th St.

Graham, Texas 76450
All persons having claims
against the Estate of the De-
ceased which is currently be-
ing administered are required
to present them within the
time and in the manner pre-
scribed by law.

DATED this the 26th day of
September, 2008.

Allen McCleskey
By: /s/ Bob Balch
Attorney for the Estate
State Bar No. 01616000
Four Eureka Circle,

Suite 101

Wichita Falls, Texas 76308
(940)696-2967

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM
J. MONTGOMERY, DE-
CEASED Notice is hereby
given that in Cause No.

89089, styled Estate of
William J. Montgomery, De-
ceased, (the “Estate”) pend-
ing in the County Court of
Travis County, Texas, original
letters testamentary were is-
sued on September 23, 2008,
to Mary C. Montgomery.
Claims may be presented
and addressed to the inde-
pendent executor of the Es-
tate in care of Patricia A.
Campbell at the following ad-
dress:

c/o Graves, Dougherty, Hea-
ron & Moody

a Professional Corporation
Attn: Patricia A. Campbell
Post Office Box 98
Austin, Texas 78767
All persons having claims
against the Estate are re-
quired to present them within
the time and in the manner
prescribed by law.

DATED this the 3rd day of
October, 2008.

Respectfully submitted,
GRAVES, DOUGHERTY,
HEARON &

MOODY, A Professional Cor-
poration

By: Patricia A. Campbell
State Bar No. 03714100
(512) 480-5625
(512) 480-5825 (fax)
ATTORNEYS FOR INDE-
PENDENT EXECUTOR

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF HENRIET-
TA A. CLEMENT Notice is
hereby given that original
Letters Testamentary for the
Estate of Henrietta A. Clem-
ent, Deceased, were issued
on September 25, 2008, in
Cause No. 89245, pending in

the Probate Court of Travis
County, Texas, to the estate’s
representative, Charlotte L.
Ready, Independent Execu-
tor. All persons having claims
against the estate are re-
quired to present them within
the time required by law.
Claims should be addressed
in care of the representative’s
attorney, Gary A. Calabrese,
1204 Nueces Street, Austin,
Texas 78701, telephone no.
(512) 472-9394.

Dated this the 2nd day of Oc-
tober, 2008.

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF KARL E.
NUTTING, DECEASED No-
tice is hereby given that orig-
inal Letters Testamentary for
the Estate of KARL E. NUT-
TING, Deceased, were is-
sued on September 23, 2008,
in Cause No. 89125, pending
in the Probate Court Number
One of Travis County, Texas,
to KARL EDWARD NUTTING
IV, the Independent Executor
of said Estate.

All persons having claims
against this Estate, which is
currently being administered,
are required to present them
within the time prescribed by
law. Claims should be pre-
sented by addressing them
in care of the Executor, Karl
Edward Nutting IV, at his
mailing address, which is
4021 Sevilla Drive, George-
town, Texas 78628.

DATED this the 23rd day of
September, 2008.

KARL EDWARD NUTTING IV,
Independent Executor of the
Estate of KARL E. NUTTING,
Deceased

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF COLETTE
PONDER WITT, DECEASED

NOTICE is given that Letters
Testamentary in the Estate of
COLETTE PONDER WITT,
DECEASED, were granted to
WEN DY J AN I N E WITT LAT-
HAM on September 25, 2008,
by Probate Court No. 1, Tra-
vis County, Texas, Cause No.
89,284.

All persons having claims
against said estate must
present same within the time
prescribed by law, and be-
fore said estate is closed, in
care of ATTORNEY RICHARD
W. CHOTE, 3305 Northland
Drive #500, Austin, Texas
78731.

WENDY JANINE WITT LAT-
HAM

Independent Executor
Estate of COLETTE PONDER
WITT, DECEASED
By: RICHARD W. CHOTE
Attorney at Law

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS
HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
THE ESTATE OF ERMA
ARLENE CUSTER Notice is
hereby given that original
Letters Testamentary for the
Estate of Erma Arlene Custer,
Deceased, were issued on
September 23, 2008, in
Cause No. 89208, pending in
the Probate Court Number
One of Travis County, Texas,
to the estate’s independent
executor without bond, Mari-
lyn A. Snipes. All persons
having claims against the es-
tate currently being adminis-
tered are required to present
them within the time required
by law. Claims should be ad-
dressed in care of the repre-
sentative’s attorney, Law-
rence A. Russell, 9951 An-
derson Mill Road, Suite 200,
Austin, Texas 78750. Dated
this the 23rd day of Septem-
ber, 2008.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the Estate of Minnie L.
Turner, AKA Minnie Laverne
Turner, Deceased, were is-
sued on August 26, 2008,
under Docket No. 89137
pending in the Probate Court
No. 1 of Travis County, Texas
to Ricky B. Turner and Thom-
as Luther Turner.

Claims may be presented in
care of the attorney for the
estate, addressed as follows:
Representative

Estate of Minnie L. Turner,
AKA Minnie Laverne Turner,
Deceased

c/o James O. Burke
18410 F.M. 969
Manor, TX 78653

All persons having claims
against this estate, which is
currently being administered,
are required to present them
within the time and in the
manner prescribed by law.
Dated October 3, 2008.

/s/ James O. Burke
Attorney for Applicant

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
Letters Testamentary for the
Estate of Ann Webb Dennis-
ton, aka Margaret Ann Den-
niston, (Deceased) were is-
sued on September 9, 2008,
in Cause No. 89190, pending
in Probate Court No. 1 of Tra-
vis County, Texas, to Jospeh
F. Denniston IV (Executor) of
Austin, Travis County, Texas.
Claims may be presented in
care of the attorney for the
Executor, addressed as fol-
lows: Estate of Ann Webb
Denniston, c/o J. Maxine
Jenks, Attorney, 604 West
35th Street, Austin, Texas
78705. All persons having
claims against the Estate
which is currently being ad-
ministered are required to
present them within the time
and in the manner prescribed
by law. Signed this date Sep-
tember 29, 2008, J. Maxine
Jenks, Attorney for Joseph F.
Denniston IV, Independent
Executor of the Estate

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the Estate of Donald Fran-
cis Mears, Deceased, were
issued on September 24,

2008, in Cause No. 89,231,
pending in Probate Court No.
1 of Travis County, Texas, to:
Dale Francis Mears.

The notice to the Independ-
ent Executor may be deliv-
ered at the following address:
c/o Barnes Lipscomb &
Stewart, PLLC
Attorneys at Law
2901 Bee Caves Road,

Box D

Austin, Texas 78746
All persons having claims
against this Estate which is
currently being administered
are required to present them
within the time and in the
manner prescribed by law.
Dated the 26th day of Sep-
tember, 2008.

/s/ Patricia T Barnes
Attorney for Independent Ex-
ecutor

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the Estate of Kimberley
Diane Eller, Deceased, were
issued on August 26, 2008,
in Cause No. 89130, pending
in the Probate Court No.

ONE, Travis County, Texas,
to: Cheryl Dawn Sellstrom.

All persons having claims
against this Estate which is
currently being administered
are required to present them
to the undersigned within the
time and in the manner pre-
scribed by law.
c/o: Steve R. Campos
Attorney at Law
91 9 Congress Avenue,

Suite 1150
Austin, Texas 78701
DATED the 26th day of Sep-
tember, 2008.

/s/ Steve R. Campos
Attorney for Cheryl Dawn
Sellstrom

State Bar No.: 03730650
91 9 Congress Avenue,

Suite 1150
Austin, Texas 78701
Telephone: (512)441-1411
Facsimile: (512)441-1410

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters of Adminis-
tration for the Estate of Rob-
ert E Burton, Deceased, were
issued on September 16,

2008, under Docket Number
87313, pending in the Pro-
bate Court Number One of
Travis County, Texas, to:

Mary Alice Burton.

Claims may be presented in
care of the attorney for the
Estate addressed as follows:
Mary Alice Burton
Independent Administrator,
Estate of Robert E. Burton,
Deceased

c/o Stan M. Putman, Jr.
Judge, Kostura & Putman,
PC.

2901 Bee Cave Rd., Box L
Austin, Texas 78746
All persons having claims
against this Estate which is
currently being administered
are required to present them
within the time and in the
manner prescribed by law.
Dated this 30th day of Sep-
tember, 2008.

Judge, Kostura & Putman,
PC.

By/s/ Stan M. Putman, Jr.,
Attorney for Applicant

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Original Letters Testamen-
tary, Estate of LOU NELL
CATES, Deceased, were is-
sued on September 25, 2008,
Cause No. 89255, Probate
Court One, Travis County,
Texas to: GROVER PAUL
CATES, III.

All persons having claims
against this Estate are to
present them to the under-
signed within the time and
manner prescribed by law.
C/O Vivian Mahlab
1911 McCall Rd.

Austin, Texas 78703
DATED September 25, 2008
/s/ Vivian Mahlab
Attorney for GROVER PAUL
CATES, III

State Bar No.: 12836650
1911 McCall Rd
Austin, Texas 78703
Telephone: (512) 477-9400
Facsimile: (512) 477-9422

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters of Adminis-
tration for the Estate of
Katherine Marie Winkler
Shanks, Deceased, were is-
sued on August 19, 2008,
under Docket Number 88945,
pending in the Probate Court
Number One of Travis
County, Texas, to: Ann
Shanks Keyser.

Claims may be presented in
care of the attorney for the
Estate addressed as follows:
Ann Shanks Keyser
Independent Administrator,
Estate of Katherine Marie
Winkler Shanks, Deceased
c/o Stan M. Putman, Jr.
Judge, Kostura & Putman,
PC.

Judge, Kostura & Putman,
PC.

By/s/ Stan M. Putman, Jr.,
Attorney for Applicant

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the Estate of Harold
Washington, Deceased, were
issued on September 18,

2008, in Cause No. 89,059,
pending in Probate Court No.
1 of Travis County, Texas, to:
Ester L. Gonzales.

The notice to the Independ-
ent Executor may be deliv-
ered at the following address:

c/o Barnes Lipscomb &
Stewart, PLLC
Attorneys at Law
2901 Bee Caves Road,

Box D

/s/ Ellen Stewart
Attorney for Independent Ex-
ecutor

NOTICE TO CREDITORS On

July 16, 2008, Rose Ellis
qualified as Guardian of the
Estate of Rosa Vargas
Boone, an Incapacitated Per-
son, in Cause No. 88,621
pending in the Probate Court
No. 1 of Travis County, Tex-
as. The address of the Guar-
dian is c/o Donald F. Carnes,
400 W. 15th, Suite 808, Aus-
tin, Texas, 78701, and all
persons having claims
against this estate are re-
quired to present them to
such address in the manner
and time required by law.

Rose Ellis

Guardian of the Estate of
Rosa Vargas Boone

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is hereby given that
original Letters of Independ-
ent Administration for the Es-
tate of Beatriz Fortanely, De-
ceased, were issued on Sep-
tember 16, 2008, in Cause
No. 88,250, pending in Pro-
bate Court No. 1 of Travis
County, Texas, to: Eugenio
“Gene” Fortanely & Beatriz
Fortanely.

The notice to Eugenio “Gene”
Fortanely, Independent Ad-
ministrator, may be delivered
at the following address:
c/o Barnes Lipscomb &
Stewart, PLLC
Attorneys at Law

2901 Bee Caves Road,

Box D

/s/ Ellen Stewart
Attorney for Eugenio “Gene”
Fortanely, Independent Ad-
ministrator

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary
for the ESTATE OF EUNICE
H. GARDNER, Deceased,
were issued on August 28,
2008, in Cause No 89159,
pending in the Probate Court,
TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, to :
Kathleen Bourland. All per-
sons having claims against
this Estate which is currently
being administered are re-
quired to present them within
the time and in the manner
prescribed by law to
:Kathleen Bourland, 7018
Bronco Court, Buda, Texas
78610. Dated the 1st day of
October, 2008. /s/ Teresa
Shahan Shapiro. Attorney for
Kathleen Bourland, SBN
24027848, 4408 Spicewood
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in Cause No. 89298, pending
in the Probate Court No. 1 ,
Travis County, Texas, to:
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currently being administered
are required to present them
to the undersigned within the
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c/o: Kay Lively
Attorney at Law
2107 Tishomingo Trail
Austin, Texas 78734
DATED the 30th day of Sep-
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Austin, Texas 78734
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original Letters Testamentary
for the Estate of Jeanette
Kern Anderson Snedden, De-
ceased, were issued on
Thursday, September 25,
2008, in Cause No. 89268,
pending in the Probate Court
Number 1 of Travis County,
Texas, to Laurie Snedden
and John Snedden.

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are required to present them
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Anderson Snedden, De-
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COUPLE SEEK BI-GAL
oh, where do we start this ad? we
want a real guy, bi-sexual. a guy
that is looking for a couple. 35-55
years old we are 40's, we are cute,
saustincouple, 44, d, #125567

NERDY SWEET COUPLE

We are looking for a woman or a
man to play with us. We are shy, but
adventurous and open to anything
once we get to know you. TrixieGirl,
38, d. #125322

SEARCHING FOR PLAYMATE

Couple seeking (clean) female for
friendship&play. Must get to know
first. Bisexual experience a plus. In-
terested in threesome and girlongirl.
Want to find someone we can com-
fortably be around. WakingLifeHunt,
24, d, #125198

FIRST TIME COUPLE

we are a couple in love but wanting
to expand our sexual pleasures, this
would be our first time but we are
very open minded. Couples or fe-
males only. 080764, 44, d. #124403

SENSUALCPLSEEKING SPICE

We are a committed middle-aged
couple interested in experienting with
like-minded individuals/couples to add
spice to our hot lovemaking. If the
words discreet, sensual, erotic, pas-
sionate, imaginative, fun interest you,
contact us. garf5848, 49, d, #123217

WANT TO SHARE

We have an awesome relationship
and sex life- and we wanna include
you in it! Looking for a third to join us
and make things more adventurous...

iris_andjack, 35, d, #122165

COUPLE INTO FUN!

We're happy couple that is into new
encounters with others. He straight,
She bi, open minded and ready!

Up4fun, 44, d, #120283

STUD IN STILETTOS

W/M, 50, married and Bi seeks en-
counters with other crossdressers or
M/M or M/F couples for erotic plea-
sures. Too sexy in my stilettos and
stockings. May introduce wife later,
eddyfreestyle, 51, d. #118296

ADVENTUROUS,

DISCRETE, FUN

Experienced couple that loves to play
with adventurous couples . Select bi,
single males and females welcome.
We are very clean, DDF, and expect
the same. We require extreme dis-
cretion. kulcpl, 39, tT, d, #116581

SEEKING SWITCH PARTNER

You-looking for fun above all with
no pre-conceived expectations.
US:Average people looking for an
above average fun ;) Prefer bi-sf, cou-
ples ok. Inexperienced welcomed.
Honesty refreshing. Bifemaustincpl,
32, S, d, #121712
SUBMISSIVE FOR MASTER
My master will control and teach
me. He should be sucessful caring
and giving yet firm. I will give my
loyalty and treat him as my king.
Jean42DDD, 37, d #127400

FEM DOM

Professional Mistress seeking
devoted servants, slaves, & submis-
sives who need the guidance of a
beautiful and stern Domina. You
must be clean, respectful, generous,
and discreet! Your privacy is accom-
modated. femdom, 25, d, #127072

WETLIPS

im a wild sex kittin with wet lips
and a soft skin, email me for sexy
e-mails, ill talk dirty! highheels23, 22,
d, #126858

HELP!!!!!!

We would like to add another women
to our love making, someone who is
experienced would be great! Women
on women would be ok as long as
he can watch. ...interested? GiGi69,
41, a S, #125791

VERS TOP

chill dude looking for some casual
play from a young good-looking guy.

effhugh84, 24, d, #127666

UP FOR ANYTHING

48,gwm,6',1 80#, blk/brn, moderately
hairy, partnered but play, looking for
men hairy or smooth, uncut prefer-
ably, for occaisional playtime, seek-
ing all types of experiences, oscar,
48, d, #127611

SUBMISSIVE SEEKING TOP

I am looking for dominant top, eager
and willing to dominate me. He
might have to put up with scheduling
problems. I am in relationship. Day-
time encounters might be necessary,
volcano, 48, d, #127424

CHASTITY FUN?

Would you like attention, affection,
adoration when and how YOU Want
it? Can the key to your heart be worn
on the same necklace as key to my
CB Cage? Yours, 39, d. #127186

HOTGUY LOOKING FOR

Hispanic Bottom, looking for a
discret encounter and a relationship
with a Top guy. I am discret Open to
new things with guys around my age
or youngers.46yrs. antonio_3638,

44, d, #118402

SOMETIMES A SISSY

5'10", long blonde, babyblues, love
lingerie, makeup and heels. Looking
to explore my feminine feelings and
desires with one caring woman,
must respect limits. Help me be me,
pretty, please. billypilgrim4mon-
tana, 43, d. #127369
SEXY TS

iim a very sexy, very hot passable
transsexual, iim 5i10i 145 pounds
with sexy hormonally induced
breasts, iim very classy, too, and
dress very provocatively, iim 28 years
old. nicole_anais, 31, d, #115140

THE BIG EASY

Looking to connect with other hu-
mans and do the things that humans
do. The good stuff that is. Uggway,
37, d, #127862

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THE LUV DOC

Texas Freedom Network’s 13th Annual Celebration
Sat., Oct. 4, 7:30-llpm • La Zona Rosa
612 W. Fourth • www.tfn.org

It would be really awesome if Jesus returns to earth in a tricked-out inter-
galactic spaceship with chrome trim, rocking George Clinton party-colored
dreads and sparkly, high-heeled, Funkadelic zip-up disco boots. That shit
would be fly Maybe throw in a little acid house woofing out of some wicked
monster subs screwed on to the chassis - something like a skanky bass-heavy
remix of “Love Train.” Jesus shimmies down the landing ramp, throwing ass,
thrusting crotch, flashing his godly white overbite, grooving like the son of the
inventor of groove itself. Oh, and don’t forget the 18-carat diamond encrusted
dollar-sign money clip. What would Jesus do? You have to think God would be
whispering in his ear, mimicking the voice of Lil’ Wayne, rapping, “Got money,
and you know it. Take it out your pocket and show it; and throw it, that a way,
this a way . . . And of course G Junior would be flinging handfuls of hundreds
to the unsoaped, outstretched hands of the poor, because really, what does
God care about scratch? He invented that shit too - both denomination and
devil. The poor will be all cheerful, patting themselves on the back knowing
they were smart enough to stay meek so they could inherit the kingdom of
heaven. After all, they’ve been holed up for years home-schooling with legions
of other knuckle-draggers and slack jaws, learning creationism and how the
hip bone connected to the thigh bone and all that, but mostly hoping Jesus
shakes a leg and brings on the Rapture before they end up in the same dead-
end, minimum wage shit jobs as their parents. After all, Jesus was a carpenter,
so you’d think he would show up for the job early He did the first time
around, but (also like a carpenter) he knocked off early and left us to finish
His work. At first it was all, just love each other and hope you don’t get slaugh-
tered by the Romans, but then the Romans got hold of the Bible and plunged
Western civilization into the Dark Ages, which sadly seems to be when most
Christian fundamentalist textbooks were approved. Fundamentalist dogma is
pretty much the same today as it was back then. It’s easy to cast aside a couple
of thousand years of scientific advancement and social progress when you’re
a dumbass, and fundamentalists seem particularly talented at churning them
out - if only so succeeding generations of dumbasses can continue to make
their way to textbook approval committees and school boards. In America,
we attempt to be polite to hair-brained fundamentalist knuckleheads, mainly
because our country was founded by them. That doesn’t mean we have to
agree with them or adopt their simpleton textbooks however. Even if the Moral
Majority really is a majority, it would truly be immoral of the immoral to let
them set the educational agenda. Soon enough, we’d all be wearing pilgrim
hats and buckle shoes and fucking through holes in blankets. Thankfully, here
in Texas, we have the Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog organization that
presents a mainstream voice to counter the regressive agenda of the religious
right. This Saturday they’re having their 13th annual fundraiser at La Zona
Rosa. You can nudge along the progress and enlightenment of Western civiliza-
tion simply by eating delicious food, bidding in the silent auction, and dancing
to Ian McLagan & the Bump Band and fiddle prodigy Ruby Jane Smith. Or,
you could just sit around waiting for the Rapture.

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SEEKING

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FALL FOR ME

I am pretty much a homebody who
likes to garden and cook and listen
to music. I dont like to leave because
I have to dress. Give me a reason!

Gourmetkiss, 45, fit #127858

SOUTHERN COMFORT

I am terrible of writing about my self,
but here it goes I have enjoy the lake,
hanging w/friends and family. Hiking,
running and just playing around in the
park, peachisncrem, 39, d, #122016

NATURAL, SEXY, SMART

I'm just a girl looking for a boy to love

me. bebebevavon, 55, #127793

TATTOO'D FILM MAKER.

i'm a film maker/editor.i love music
my favortie bands are the strokes,
rage against the machine. I like watch-
ing old movies, disscusing the theory
of whatever. I'm told I'm extremely
funny. MusicBby, 18, d, #127775

ADVENTURES, PLAYFUL,
BUBBLY,

I'm quite the odd duck. I'm random,
I'm klutzy, I'm loud, I'm sarcastic, and
I make a complete jackass out of my-
self most of the time, unintentionally.
What you find stupid, I probably find
hilarious. Dollface, 18, fit #127767

BIKING AROUND TOWN?

I rock. If you can handle truth and
fun while riding bikes around town,
then we have something in common.

alyoga, 36, d. #127712

INSERT CLEVER LINE...

I am new to Austin, and love it!. I
am discovering new and fun things
to do here everyday, and would like
someone to share this with. Moldoll,
41, d, #127705

ONE COOL CHICK.

I love live music, spontaneous road
trips, riding bikes, drinks on patios,
good jukeboxes. I'm new in town and
am looking for an equally cool partner
in crime. Anodyne, 36, KM. #127692

NO GAMES

Nice guy to debate politics, see
movies, travel and be creative to
what else life offers. NO GAMES a
real man a confident man who is self
assured and successful. Natural-
women, 53, S, KM #127514

ADVENTOROUS, SILLY,
STRAIGHFORWARD,

I never do things like this but nothing
else is working for me. I really enjoy
being spontanious. I love picnics,
music, and hanging out. and of
course weed. Liz, 18, d, #127680

ADVENTUROUS SEEKING
COMPANION

Once upon a time there was a quiet
and serene woman... most of the
time. She loved to travel, discover new
things, read, watch movies, music and
dining out. Gaia_Girl, 36, d, #127667
IT'S TRULY

Hi find me. Hotwhitehot, 32, tf,
d. #127563

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SEEKING

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SILENT BUT AWESOME

There was a guy who lived in Taylor
who goes into Austin to find a girl
that had a great outlook on life and
was caring. He will tell more, uto-
pian_dream89, 19, d. #127870

RELAXED, EASY GOING

i dont do this a lot, but im an easy
going guy that just wants to find a
good girl. 127752, 20, d. #127752

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music, sing, love. Gypsy at heart in
love with home of Austin. Family,
friends, peace and justice, spiritual-
ity, nature, hugs. Latinos welcome,
friends first. Quiero bailar contigo.
alegre, 49, d, #124560

THE HARD WAY

I'm a pretty honest person and say
what is on my mind. I have many pas-
sions in life a few being my family/
friends, animals, music, hockey, and
life itself! Katie_D, 19, d, #127652

CRAZY SEXY COOL

Rubenesque dilettante looking for
someone new. Friends describe me as
vivacious, assertive and stacked. You
have a piercing stare, infectious laugh,
and the missing half of this broken
amulet. talk8cheap, 36, d. #118590

COSMOPOLITAN
WANNABE TEXAN

World traveler settled in Austin.

Looking for man to be myself with.

No boys, no games, just honesty, intel-
ligence, sincerity. Goofy humor definite
plus. I'm educated, independent, part-
time goofball. Helga, 35, d, #127583

SEXY, FUN, PRINCESS

Girls just want to have fun, so I love
tennis, biking, running, live music,
quiet nights, lakes, rivers, sunrises,
sunsets, and especially sharing these
with someone who makes me smile.
40love, 53, d, #127547

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MUSIC LOVING LADY

I'm a graduate student at UT pursuing my PhD in
chemistry. I'm about halfway through the program
and I love that I get to learn something new ev-
eryday. I love music, it suits my mood, it captures
memories and just makes me happy dangit!

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SPONTANEOUS, PASSIONATE,
LET'S MAKE MUSIC!!

I just love musicOboth listening
and playing, live been playing the
electric guitar for 10 years. Into all
genres. Iim looking for a great girl
that shares my passion, sixstring-
shred, 21, d, #127856

CREATIVE CHARMING
CONVOLUTED

Recent import from the Ohio Valley,
and I'm slowly falling hopelessly in
love with this town and I'm searching
for some worthy females to join me
in "Austin Exploration Exercises."
Navidad, 33, d. #127852

MADE OF AWESOME

I'm a vegan, sxe guy who goes to way
too many shows, looking for a girl to
celebrate the greatness with whose
down with the nerdy, up for going

out. letsdothis, 20, d. #127828

LOVING, PASSIONATE,
POLITICAL

New to town. Looking for long term
passion & intensity. I'm an artist,
activist, sustainable liver who works
with kids. Sensual, outgoing, open-
minded. Contact me if you have no
fear, lovinart, 27, d. #127777

HIPSTER/CLOSET NERD/
SOCIAL WORKER

I'm a pretty easy going nice guy. I like
to joke around alot and some people
either find that obnoxious or endear-
ing. Ive had an interesting life and
extensively traveled. Omgwtfbbq,

28, d. #127816
STRANGE, BOMB, METAL
I'm Mikey, I like going to the park,
listen to live music, and having a
good time. I'm looking for someone
who lives the say lifestyle, and down
with Ms.Jane. teethpluscurb, 20,
d. #127778

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flower of life, greek, metal, hiking,
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ECLECTIC EMPIRICIST

Easy-going guy serious about empiri-
cal work but also personal time. Enjoys
live music and dancing. Likes to swim
and ride bike. Looking for woman with
eclectic tastes (e.g., foreign films),
curlewguy, 45, d #127779

CARNIVOROUS, NOCTURNAL,
INDEPENDENT.

Tarsier seeking a female who's not
afraid to display her genitalia at
first chirrup. I love lots of foreplay
and quick intense copulation, then
i would expect you to leave. Hors-
fieldTarsier, 28, d, #127769

FI RESTARTER

I love outdoors activities, going to
hear bands play, playing disc golf,
and lots more. If you want a good
man then get at me! simplybetter-
man, 23, d. #127766

WHAT TICKLES YOU

Ok, not really looking for a relation-
ship but if sparks fly, what you gonna
do, their freakin sparks. Love to
watch movies and cook something
just cuz your in the mood. JB, 29,
d. #127759

NEW TO TEXAS

TWINKIE. If you know what this term
means and would like a bite, we
should get along just fine. Im quite
complex, intelligent, funny and RICH
(i wish), nomadhal, 39, d. #127757

CREATIVE

I just moved here and I don't know
anyone. You want to date me? Lets
go out. You want to be my buddy?
Lets the hit bars. I need people...
people. 3rdfloor, 21, d, #127751

BE YOUR SELF

know me by me self i really find a girl
want a real lover me gustan las chicas
sexy las gueritas bonitas d lindos sen-
timientos pero tambien las morenitas

hi LatinoSexy, 26, d, #127749

LIVING-FONETICLY SINCE 1981

Are you my soul mate? Do you think
Vespas are sexy and will eat with
me at Homeslice? Do you like The
DraftHouse and expensive shoes?

dzonny, 27, d. #127725

INTELLECTUALLY CURIOUS,
ADVENTUROUS

31 SWM, 5'9", native Austinite.
Professional, fit, emotionally and
financially stable. Very sweet,
musical (classical, jazz), interested
in sustainability, counterculture, and
always finding new hobbies. Looking
for similar, aged 24-33. amadeus, 31,
d, #127727

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CHARMING. CUTE. CONFIDENT.

I'm a down to earth girl who enjoys
hanging out around Austin. I love
cooking, watching movies, and playing
with my dog. Did I mention that I'm a
Scorpio? kristi123, 20, d. #127827

SEXYSAXOPHONIST

i'm a music major at UT, here in Aus-
tin. i'm a great listener, i'm great with
my hands, like for massages and
stuff, lol, if you get what i'm saying.

mercury2, 19, d. #127785

JUST WANNA DATE

I'm told that I am fun and smart. I
love to dance and sing kerokie (but
obviously i cant spell worth a darn).

manturian, 44, KM, #127729

HOTFIESTYFEMME

I'm an attractive, intelligent woman
who is caring, understanding, and
strong. I'm looking for someone who
is honest, perceptive,funny,communi
cative...l could go on but contact me
and I'll tell you in person. ..midnight
pancakes at Kirby? ariesgoddess77,
31, d, #127657
JUST MOVED HERE!

Just moved here from Los Angeles.
I've got one dog, and I like to be
outdoors. .. preferably w/her. I enjoy
sports, art, movies, and being ac-
tive in all areas of life. LBoogie, 24,
d. #127458

SINGIN CRAZY GIRL

Fun laid back girl looking for friends
and or relationship with someone
i see eye to eye with and can be
myself around, sorringraven, 21,
d, #127453

ENTERTAINING, WARM, FUNNY

Looking for uniqueness, warmth, and
individualism, friends and casual dat-
ing. My friends think I am funny. I really
don't know , guess I don't take myself
seriously. HiC, 47, d. #127427

ALL ABOUT ROMANCE

Who I am: caring, sensitive, intuitive,
intelligent, musical, spiritual What's
important to me: time with friends
and family, prayer, music, knowing
myself and others, social justice,
child advocacy, personal growth.
songbird68, 39, d. #121027

men

SEEKING

men

AUSTIN BORN

I'm emotional & moody at times,
passive, vers/btm and feminine
mannered. I'm looking for white or
hispanic men vers/tops. No Closet
Cases! I Be Proud of who you are, I
am. jmnzptrck, 41, d, #127798

HOPE DIES LAST

haha, i am many things, but ordinary
is not one of them! Lets be random
together ! ! And find new ways to be
crazy I Blue, 23, d. #101322

LOOK HERE, PLEASE!

Looking for friendship, dating.
Interests include camping, biking,
theater, movies, reading, canoeing,
traveling. Politically progressive,
romantic, passionate, humorous, and
do community work Am 5'9, 163#,
62yo, trim gray beard, masculine.
AusAbogado, 62, d. #124933

HELP DUDE OUT

This is tough. How witty and interest-
ing am I really? Well, the fact that
people flock around me is an indica-
tion. I have to travel with bodyguards
to HEB! HELP! spacedoglOl, 35,
d. #119219

GUY IN BUDA

seeking nice and outgoing men for
fun in and out of the bedroom, men
who stay active or just quiet time
at home, lets get busy or just relax.

rudyinbuda, 41, d, #126941

YOUR SENSUAL SPARTAN

I'm a man with a passion for good
looking women, high quality dining,
and watching animals. I enjoy watch-
ing the 300, Rambo, and Conan.

Could you be my Salma/Heidi Klum?
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WAIT IM CONFUSED

Im "THAT GUY" No Im not but im
this tall blk man, cool I have seen
it all and done most of it. I Want to
meet new people, thadoubleman,

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show me around and network with.

BlondeRedhead, 23, EM #127282

A KALEIDOSCOPIC WORLD

I live, eat, breathe music. Love Radio-
head & Muse I'm a dreamer. I love to
sit in the woods, staring up through
the trees. I love hiking & the ocean.

tgwke, 22, fit #127654

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PAUL HUSBAND, HAPPY 1 year
anniversary to the best friend and
husband a girl could ever hope for! I
love you! Lori Wife

a Shot

BHS HEADLOCK HEROINE

You put me in a headlock! Loved it!
Me in yellow polo; you, tall, in black,
pink/blonde hair. Make no mistake,

I'm no frat-boy fuckhead... Never-
mind that. Drinks at Barflys? When:
Saturday, September 27. Where:
Stubb's Butthole Surfers Show.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #903448

ACL BLACK KEYS

Hi Lauren, You're the most beautiful
girl I've ever seen in my entire life. I
told you so. You left with your friends.
Would love to meet you again. Thom-
as When: Saturday, September 27.
Where: ACL Saturday @ Black Keys.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903447

CANCUN STA JESSICA

Your sublimestiles stole my heart.
Your personality kept me moving,
where did you go, lost without you?
Brent When: Wednesday, October
29, 2003. Where: Cancun/ATX/UT.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903446

HOTTIE AT OBERST

I was the dude standing behind you
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shirt and a small skull tattoo, Let's
ride bikes! When: Sunday, Septem-
ber 28. Where: La Zona Rosa. You:
Woman. Me: Man. #903445

NOT ALWAYS SPRITE!

You - workin a bar at ACL rockin
ponytails, cowboy hat, and an amaz-
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that said "C is for Crunk". :-) When:
Sunday, September 28. Where: ACL
Bar closest the AT&T Stage. You:
Woman. Me: Man. #903443

BROKEN FOOT BEAUTY

You wearing a red dress dancing, made
eye contact all night. You waved to me
as you left. I was the fool who should
of talked to you. When: Saturday,
September 27. Where: Club de Ville.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903442

MAYBE IT'S MAYBELLINE

Town Lake is much more fun when
you are not on the shore. How about
giving kayaking a try? I have two
extra boats. When: Sunday, Sep-
tember 28. Where: Red Bud Island.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903437

CUTE BRUNETTE

Hello, I ordered Vodka from a cute
cocktail server.! could not figure out
the name I tipped well and made a
paper rose Thought you were cool.
Coffee? When: Saturday, Septem-
ber 27. Where: El Camino. You:
Woman. Me: Man. #903441

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a RocK StAr! ! Thank you bunches and
bunches for the candy- and for lunch
and... for taking me to get my car! ! You
are Soooo Awesome!! Smiles!! Holly
CAVEY: REMEMBER YOUR front
porch after Mexico... the last sunset of
the year at Mt. Bonnell... Duke... wak-
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forget & I know you won't either. You
are still my everything... until my last
breath. Always yours. ZOIDBERG

JH-OMG I CAN not believe you
asked me to go!! We are going to
have sooooo much Freaking Fun-
cause we are cool like that! Thanks
for all that you do with me and for
me- you are my Bestest Friend You
have stolen my heart again!! Always
yours— Smiles — HC

HEATHER AT SURFERS

You just moved back from S.F. and
didn't believe I am Bi, I didn't tell you
everything! Searched 4 U all night!
You stole my heart, want to know
more? When: Saturday, September
27. Where: Butthole Surfers,
Stubb's Waller Creek. You: Woman.
Me: Man. #903440

MOJITO LOVER

You: Cute hot blond joking with me
how much you love a hard mojito.
Me: Cutie in shorts letting you know
I make the best mojitos! Come try
my mojitos! When: Friday, Septem-
ber 19. Where: Opal Devines 6th
St. on Pirate Night. You: Woman.
Me: Woman. #903438

DREADLOCK COWBOY

You-cowboy hat, boots and jeans with
rips. You AND your dog had dreads.
Me-black tank top and jeans, walking
with my neighbor. Perhaps a meeting
same time next week? When: Sunday,
September 28. Where: Town Lake.
You: Man. Me: Woman. #903436

COOL SHIRT BLOND...

Continental Club You, angelic
blond, devilish eyes. Me, cowboy
from hell, liked your shirt. We played
the shy game, but I let you get away.
Strip gin rummy? Coffee? Both? A
reply? When: Wednesday, Septem-
ber 24. Where: Continental Club.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903435

HYDE PARK WESTGATE

Me:sitting at the bar with my friend
You:came over with your adorable
nephew Andrew to watch football,
wanted to talk to you more, but you
ran out with your family, football game
sometime? When: Sunday, Septem-
ber 28. Where: Hyde Park Westgate.
You: Man. Me: Woman. #903444

GREY BIKE LEAF

Saw you locking your bike at leaf,
parked around the corner and snuck
a peak through the window. Been
doing it every day since. Nice bum,
salad boy. When: Wednesday, Sep-
tember 24. Where: Leaf. You: Man.
Me: Woman. ^ #903434

WYNDHAM AMP BARTENDER!

Grant, you were serving up the mar-
tinis, you had a guitar in your pocket,
AND you were happy to see me! I
should have danced with you. Ask
me again? When: Thursday, Sep-
tember 25. Where: Wyndham. You:
Man. Me: Woman. tT #903433

BRIAN D.... THE sad truth is... I'll
ALWAYS love you. That will never
change. With all that I am, forever &
always. —Lori

COOKAH: YOU HAVE the key to

my heart. I've taken off my running
shoes. Can't wait to meet you in the
closet! xo Leslie

VALERIA S>F> PHOTOGRA-
PHER, Kenny has it bad for you. He
thinks my message was from you
to him and has been responding like
crazy. If you have any feelings for this
romantic fellow.. .pis. forget the past
and give him a chance. He admits
to his lack of communication among
other things... he loves you so call
this guy and take him off my hands.
I'm a lesbian. .please!

BILL @ MAGGIE-MAE'S

You gave me a hard time about using
your ashtray at your table, but you
complimented me on my glasses.
Sorry I had to leave so fast. Playful
bantering again sometime? When:
Thursday, September 25. Where:
Maggie Mae's Sixth Street. You:
Man. Me: Woman. #903432

EPOCH NIGHTHAWKESS

To Diligently Studious Nighthawkess
Me: Skinny guy in white t-shirt &
shorts. You: Sandy blonde in dark
brown dress & flip flops. Epoch Cof-
fee, Wed. Night 9.24/Thu. Morning
9.25- 2-3AM When: Thursday, Sep-
tember 25. Where: Epoch Coffee.
You: Woman. Me: Man. tT #903431

WALMART LAST THUR-183/G20

Wow, total shot in the dark. You: black
T-shirt & jeans, buying supplies for your
classroom. Me: chatted about your HS
class, then got in-line behind you. Chat
more? When: Thursday, September
25. Where: walmart. You: Woman.
Me: Man. #903430

JOSH AT WATERLOO

You are the most awesome server
ever! OMG! You can greet, prebuss,
upsale like no other!! I hope one day
we can be friends! When: Thursday,
September 25. Where: Waterloo
Icehouse/ Burnet. You: Man. Me:
Woman. #903429

CUTE PHARMACIST

you filled my prescription at
walgreens last night, you're sooooo
cute! GREAT smile. ..but i was too shy
to say. hope you read these! When:
Wednesday, September 24. Where:
walgreens on gattis school. You:
Woman. Me: Woman. #903428

ROCKIN TOMATO CHARMER

we met years ago. you once said
i was the painted woman in your
dream, lets reminisce... meet me
at the first place we ever kissed,
night of the 28th When: Tuesday,
September 23. Where: rockin
tomatoe- s lamar. You: Man. Me:
Woman. #903427

FREDDIES LOVES
SCHNAUZERS!

Your mom liked my shirt that said "A
sleepy little drinking town with a live
music problem" then your schnauzer
made friends with mine. Wanna do
the dog park sometime? When: Sun-
day, August 17. Where: FREDDIES.
You: Woman. Me: Woman. #903426

SWEETTART- STILL MISSING

you, i think of you everyday. This is
so hard!! sugarbear xoxo

JESSICA YOUR SUBLIMESTILES

stole my heart and your personality
kept me moving. Where are you, I am
lost without your spirit!! Call me. Brent

ARCHBISHOP JOSE GOMEZ

Catholic children are kept in the
Taylor concentration camp. Catholics
number over 80% in Austin jails.
Catholics in Texas targetted by legisla-
tion have surpassed the Jews of the
1930's in Germany. Goyacla, Cajeme,
Zapata and Cesar Chavez suffered
your neglect in their times. Why have
you forsaken us? -Paul Avina.

CHAI-LOVER, YOU ARE one

cheesy ass cracker.

STRANGERS INTHE NIGHT

round midnight, you: looking bored
at work, rock n roll giftshop in red
me: sleeved, stretched white shirt
grey hat, w/ girl but not gf. couldn't
stop staring. When: Tuesday, Sep-
tember 23. Where: 6th and Neches.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903425

LAURAS FRIEND /IRS

Me, photographer, pecan street....
you. ..IRS,, Laura's friend? I was

busy Would love to talk to

you Please email When: Saturday,

September 20. Where: Pecan Street.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903424

ABEL FROM FREDRICKSBERG

9/20, actually Sunday 210am.

Abel you were getting pizza at
Colorado/4th. My friend told you it
was my birthday and you kissed me,
twice. Where did you go? Let's meet!
When: Saturday, September 20.
Where: pizza vendor 4th/Colorado.
You: Man. Me: Woman. #903421

BEECAVES2244 ft 360

Me: Blue Lexus You: On A Motorcyle.

I Checked You Out. It Appeared That
You Wanted Me To Pull Over But I Was
Turning And You Were Staying On Bee-
Caves. When: Saturday, September
20. Where: Bee Caves (2244) & 360.
You: Man. Me: Woman. #903420

CLEMENTINE PATIO SMILES

Today on the Clementine patio, I
saw through my red sunglasses
you in your green shirt. A little white
dog said "Hello," and so did your
smile. Tag, you're it. When: Sunday,
September 21. Where: Clementine.
You: Woman. Me: Man. S #903419

WHOLE FOODS SATURDAY

Second story, outside. You looked my
way several times, but I never walked
over. You were wearing shades, a blue
blouse and red sneakers. Can I buy
you lunch? When: Saturday, Septem-
ber 20. Where: Whole Foods Lamar.
You: Woman. Me: Man. #903418

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

by Rob Brezsny for Oct. 3-9

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): ‘New ideas show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradic-
tions, and embarrassing dilemmas,” says motivational speaker Rob Lebow. “Beware of total strangers
and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make
you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future.”That excellent advice is my birthday present
to you, Libra. If you make use of it during the next three weeks, I bet you’ll consistently be in the right
place at the right time to extract the maximum benefit from your blind dates with destiny.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-NOV. 21): Robert Downey Jr. is grateful to Burger King for serving him such gross
food. After eating a particularly foul meal there in 2003, he told Empire magazine he was so disgusted
that he drove to the beach and hurled all of his drugs into the sea. It was the shock he needed to
begin the process of kicking his addiction. In that spirit, Scorpio, I suggest you seek out a similar
epiphany - whether that involves an encounter with greasy, fried cow meat or some other phenomenon
that triggers your urge to rise up and purify yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s a seller’s market for you, Sagittarius. If I were you, I wouldn’t
buy a bunch of new stuff or invest in unripe possibilities. Rather, I’d cash in on the hard work I’ve been
doing for many months now. I’d quit while I was ahead. I’d liquidate assets that might soon decline in
their value to me but that are still at the height of their value to other people. In order for you to sum-
mon the brisk confidence necessary to pull this off, you’ll have to resist greedy temptations to hold on
to everything a little while longer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- Jan. 19): Most American companies don’t pay any federal income tax.
During a recent seven-year period, 1.3 million businesses earned well over a trillion dollars but
didn’t pony up a penny to the U.S. government. I mention this, Capricorn, because it’s now a favor-
able time, astrologically speaking, for you to seek comparable perks. Look into this, please: Maybe
you don’t have to keep having your assets drained in ways you’ve always assumed were inevitable.
I’m talking metaphorically as well as literally; I’m referring to emotional and psychic energy as well
as actual money. Are there any legal and ethical loopholes you can exploit to free yourself from
long-running burdens?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Once upon a time, Brave Aquarius wandered out to the edge of the
known universe in search of mind-blowing sensations and foreign titillations and clues to the future. So
imagine Brave Aquarius’ amazement when the rather attractive ogre who was guarding the rope bridge
that crossed over the abyss said: “Stop! You’re headed the wrong way! The mind-blowing sensations
and foreign titillations and clues to the future you crave are back in the direction you came from. In
fact, they are all the way back where you started.” What to do? The ogre’s advice was counterintuitive
and downright confounding. But Brave Aquarius, being foremost an experimental adventurer, thought:
“Hmmm. I guess maybe I’ll try what the ogre suggested. What could be more experimental and adven-
turous than changing my mind?”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Blessings will come if you cultivate as much stillness as possible. I’m
not just talking about reducing the noise levels, although that’s a good first step. Other things you might
want to do: Cut way down on your use of the phone; text message sparingly; surf the Internet 70% less
than usual; avoid watchingTV news altogether; and don’t hang around people whose minds zip around
like chimps on meth. As for your own monkey mind: See if you can enjoy some periods each day when
the monkey gets to lie down in a soft place and watch the wide sky roll by.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her book Courtney Love: The Queen of Noise, Melissa Rossi reports
that in the mid-1990s, “Courtney surrounded herself with a coterie of soothsayers, even approaching
hipster stargazer Rob Brezsny, who declined to provide his astrological services.” Rossi doesn’t explain
why I declined, but I’ll tell you. Love wasn’t interested in the kind of information I specialize in. She
pressed me to tell her whether her romantic future should be with Trent or Billy, and I urged her to talk
about the changes she could make in herself and her life to get clear about what she wanted. She
implored me to predict her future, and I prodded her to formulate intelligent questions that would help
her create a beautiful and interesting future for herself. I bring this up, Aries, because in the coming
weeks, I hope you will do what I suggested she try back then.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus actor Pierce Brosnan told Parade magazine how shocking it
was to get fired after playing the role of James Bond for four films. But after the initial pain he felt
from being rejected, he eventually got to the point where he could say: “I’m free now. I can do anything
I want.” What helped him recover was conjuring up the proper attitude. “You’ve got to be a fighting
rooster,” he said. That’s half of my prescription for you in the coming week, Taurus. Be a charismatic
warrior as you push to further your highest ideals and brightest desires. Be a stylishly fierce liberator in
charge of designing your own freedom. Be a fighting rooster with the heart of an artist.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you believe in higher love at first sight? How about instant en-
lightenment? And what about higher love at first sight that brings instant enlightenment or instant
enlightenment that provokes higher love at first sight? These are themes I suspect you’ll soon be flirting
with, Gemini. In order to get all of the blessings from the lessons they’ll offer, you must dispense with
your preconceived notions about what they might entail. You’ve got to wash your own brain so it’s nice
and clean and empty of expectations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your creed for the last three months of 2008 comes from Nikos Ka-
zantzakis: “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexis-
tent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Memorize this meme, Cancerian. Imprint it on your
subconscious mind. Make it so much a part of you that it breathes as you breathe and dreams as
you dream. Allow it to turn you into a magician whose potent desire is as strong as the longings of 10
normal people put together.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Gleeking is a term that refers to a special kind of projectile spitting. To do it,
you’ve got to practice. It involves pressing your tongue against your submaxillary salivary gland when a
pool of drool has accumulated nearby. I recommend this practice for you in the coming week, Leo. It’ll
be a favorable time for you to be undignified, unpredictable, and even outrageous in expressing your-
self. Other suggested practices: telling unruly stories concisely, speaking the truth with picturesque but
disciplined extravagance, adding some vivid new slang to your body language, and skipping and hop-
ping or even dancing as you walk. (For instructions on how to gleek, go to www.tinyurl.com/hn7vo.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Talk back to those annoying voices in your head, Virgo - I mean those
nagging little chatterers who are second-guessing you 10 times a day, who are trying to undermine
your faith in what you started in recent weeks. And as you respond to their agitation, do so with poise
and grace - not with defensiveness, not with bitter complaint, but with a quietly aggressive confidence
that the lucid intuitions you relied on to launch your new projects were basically sound. The annoying
little voices are trying to convince you that you should go back to square one, when in fact you’re on
the right track but merely need to do some tinkering.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s
EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877/873-4888 or 900/950-7700.

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